Modupe Irele

Modupe Enitan Irele is a Nigerian diplomat and current Nigerian Ambassador to France,^[1] becoming the first female to hold the role since the diplomatic mission appointed its first representative in 1966.^[2][3] She was nominated by President Muhammadu Buhari on October 20, 2016,^[4] and presented her credentials to President Macron on December 18, 2017.^[5]

Career and education[]

Modupe Irele was born in Nigeria, and gained her Bachelor’s Degree in English with a minor in French from the University of Ibadan. She proceeded to gain her Masters from the same institution. Modupe earned a second Masters degree in education from University College Dublin. In 1996, she earned her doctorate from Penn State University focusing on Online Learning and Teacher Training.^{[6] [7]}

Irele began her career in banking, spending 15 years as a retail banker, before venturing into education consulting. She runs her own educational consulting practice in Nigeria, Key Learning Solutions^[8] and served in the Faculty of Department and Learning and Performance Systems at the Penn State University Department of Education.^[9]

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