Chude Jideonwo is on the Advisory Board of Open Country Mag. He is a media entrepreneur with a 25-year career spanning advertising, public relations, television, radio, print, and digital media. As co-founder and CEO of RED | For Africa, he crafted and led strategies that fueled social movements and shaped national elections across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Sierra Leone, and Senegal. He is a co-founder of The Future Awards Africa. He is the founder of Joy, Inc., a human flourishing company, and the host of #WithChude, a podcast featuring conversations with African leaders and celebrities, on the streaming platform withChude.com. He has served on boards that include Microsoft 4Afrika, the Oando Foundation, and The Initiative for Equal Rights, where he is the current chair. He has advised global corporations and nonprofits, including Meta, Google, the Gates Foundation, the African Union, and the governments of the UK and the US, on media strategy, democracy, and human rights. He has taught media and communication at Pan Atlantic University. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, The Huffington Post, and The Financial Times. He is the author of three books: Are We the Turning Point Generation: How Africa’s Youth Can Change the World (Kachifo, 2014); How to Win Elections in Africa: Parallels with Donald Trump (BookBaby, 2018); and How Depression Saved My Life (Narrative Landscape, August 2025). He has been a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, CNBC Young Business Leader of the Year, an Archbishop Desmond Tutu Fellow, and a World Fellow at Yale University. In 2024, he was appointed Creative-In-Residence at the London School of Economics.
