Emilia Asim-Ita | |
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| Emilia was the Founder/Practice Director of AML | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 29 January 1988 |
| Died | January 29, 2021 |
| Citizenship | Nigerian |
| Education | BSc and MSc in Mass Communication |
| Alma mater | University of Lagos, Cambridge University |
| Occupation | Communicator and Journalist |
Emilia Asim-Ita (1988 – 29 January 2021) was a Nigerian entrepreneur and co-founder of The Future Awards Africa.[1]
Emilia loved bringing ideas to life, readiing and writing, and was passionate about learning, meeting and connecting people.
For the past 16 years, she worked in all facets of the Integrated Marketing Communication gamut, Youth Development, and Development Communications.
A graduate (MSc. & BSc.) of Mass Communication from the University of Lagos, Emilia completed various training programmes, taught and consulted on Development Communications, Sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental & Social Risk Management, Corporate Reporting, Advocacy & Policy Influencing, Corporate Governance, Grant Writing, and Executive Coaching amongst many others.
Emilia was the Founder/Practice Director of AML, a multi-disciplinary, strategic communications firm which evolved from a PR/Media Business started in December 2010.
Prior to AML, she co-founded ThistlePraxis; one of the foremost indigenous management consulting companies focused on Sustainability and CSR; and The Future Awards/The Future Nigeria Project and was PR/Marketing Director for the convening organisation, RedSTRAT Communications (now RED Media) for six years.
She has also been Strategy & Communications Director, 3AL, Associate Producer and Content Director, The Academy and Amstel Malta Box Office Reality shows. She started her career as Presenter, Book Review Segment, Mind Your Grammar on NTA 2 Channel 5 before working as Presenter, Youth Talk with Emilia on NTA Network Service for five years.
In her spare time, she served as a mentor for Queens Young Leaders (YLP) Programme by Cambridge University, United Kingdom and both Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP) and I.N.V.E.N.T. in Nigeria. Emilia was an Associate Fellow, Nigeria Leadership Initiative (NLI), a Global Shaper of World Economic Forum and Member, Global Shapers Advisory Council on Impact after serving as Curator of the Lagos Hub.
Emilia's learning and research interests were in project management, digital & social innovation, specialised communication, media ecology, and cybernetics.[2]
On May 2, 2020 in an interview with Kingsley Olumona, she spoke about her work and journalism; business and brand; Nigerian tourism, the proposed social media and hate speech bills by the Senate, and her advice for young people. And went further to talk about how she had always built or grown Brands since she was 16 years old.[3]