George Obolo

Co-Founder, The Black Excellence Network

George Obolo is an award-winning social entrepreneur, leader, creative and public speaker. He is a 21-year-old medical student at The University of Manchester and the Co-Founder of The Black Excellence Network, a non-profit organisation to help tackle the racial disparities between black students and other ethnicities within the UK.

Within a year, The Black Excellence Network has built a large community across their social media, newsletters, and website, providing key career and higher education information to thousands of young black people across the UK.

Department for Education, McKinsey & Co, National Citizen Service and MediaCom are just some of the companies George has advised on a wide range of topics.