Mrs Bukola Olatunji is the Deputy Director, SERVICOM, Anti-Corruption and Transparency (SACT) Division, in the Office of the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), She is a journalist by training, with interests in education and communication for development. Mrs Olatunji graduated from the University of Ibadan with a Master’s degree in Communication Arts and has served in several capacities in the private and public sectors.

In more than 20 years of journalism practice, 10 of which was as Education Editor of This Day Newspapers, she traversed the world covering education and presenting papers, including six editions of the biennial General Conference of UNESCO in Paris, Commonwealth of Learning conferences in Edinburgh and the United Kingdom, International Conference on Education, Geneva, International Conference against Sexual Exploitation of Children in Japan, Conference of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA), Washington DC and several others across 15 countries in Africa including Benin, Ghana, Senegal, Tunisia, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Cote d’Ivoire, Mauritius, Mali, South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Kenya and Gabon.

She won the first ever African Education Journalist of the Year Award, organised by the Association for Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), in 2002 and won it for the second time in 2005, among other awards and commendations by her employers. A member of the Steering Committee, Communication for Education and Development (COMED), for three years (2009 – 2012), Olatunji is currently a member of the Executive Board of the Addis Ababa-based Coalition on Media and Education for Development Africa Forum (CAFOR).

Mrs. Olatunji joined NUC in 2012 as a Chief Information Officer and has been the Communications Officer at NUC’s Project Implementation Unit (PIU) of the World Bank-supported Africa Centres of Excellence (ACE) Project since 2015. She is, among others, an Alumna of the Galilee International Institute of Management, Israel and US State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Programme, which saw her visiting seven states in the US to examine ‘Contemporary Challenges in Higher Education’.