Ojoma Ochai is the Managing Director of CcHUB, Africa’s leading creative and innovation ecosystem enabler. She is also co-founder of CcHUB’s Creative Economy Practice. She serves on global panels, including UNESCO’s Expert Panel on Cultural Expressions, where she advises on the development of global creative industries.
With nearly 20 years of experience in international cultural relations and leading Creative and Digital Economy programmes, she has worked with organisations like British Council, where she exited as Regional Director of Arts and Creative Economy Programmes for Sub-Saharan Africa in 2021. She was also the board chair of British Council Nigeria Programmes Limited from 2019 to 2021.
Ms. Ochai has consulted on World Bank projects and advised various national governments and organisations in Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe on Arts, Culture, Creative and Digital Economy. She was a Rockefeller Bellagio Centre Resident in Italy in 2023 and serves on several boards, including ₿ Trust (backed by Jack Dorsey and Jay Z to support Bitcoin Open Source development in the global south), and Solar Sister, which invests in African women entrepreneurs to start, grow, and sustain successful clean energy businesses.
