Lola Adedokun is the Executive Director of the Aspen Global Innovators Group at the Aspen Institute and Co-Chair of the Aspen Institute Forum on Women and Girls. At the Institute, she leads a dynamic team advancing a portfolio of programs that expand opportunities for, and access to, health and prosperity for people living at the world’s margins.

She also serves on the boards of Foster America, Community Solutions, the National Employment Law Project, and Dartmouth College's John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding.

Before joining the Aspen Institute, Adedokun spent 14 years with the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, where she administered over $150 million in grant-making as both Director of the African Health Initiative and Director of the Child Well-Being Program.

Previously, Adedokun was an analyst at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, responsible for management and analysis of HIV/AIDS surveillance data, and an analyst at Abt Associates Inc. She was a co-founder and advisor for Boys Speak Out and an advisor for the Adaptive Education Languages Institute.

Adedokun holds a Master of Public Health degree from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and dual B.A. degrees with Honors in Health Policy & Society and Sociology from Dartmouth College.

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