Olukorede is the Executive Director and Chairman, Board of Trustees of Kolmarg Eyesight Foundation. He qualified as an Ophthalmologist in 2006 and is currently a Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Jos and Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist at the Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos in north-central Nigeria. He completed a one-year subspecialty training in vitreo-retina surgery in 2016 at Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai under the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust-funded Commonwealth Eye Health Consortium programme. He is passionate about providing eye care to rural communities and has been involved in eye camps in rural areas of north-central and north-eastern Nigeria for over 10 years. Olukorede is a part-time pastor with Living Faith Church, Rock Haven in Jos and he enjoys reading and playing table tennis.

Emmanuel is a health systems strengthening and global health security subject matter expert. He was former deputy director (projects and program coordination) at the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and he project-managed the establishment of the National Reference Laboratory, Gaduwa; achieved project effectiveness for the $90m World Bank Regional Diseases Surveillance System Enhancement (REDDISSE) project; led the planning, negotiations and initiated the implementation of the laboratory component of the Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health (RSSH) project (worth $4 million) funded by Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria (GFATM) from 2018- 2019.

Between 2014 and 2016, Emmanuel led the roll out of the largest deployment of GeneXpert in Africa, which was funded by the GFATM. He also provided technical leadership (for the HIV technical team overall, as well as subject matter expertise for HIV treatment care and support) to design and implement the GFATM new funding mechanism for HIV programs in the country, worth $300 million from 2014 to 2016.

Emmanuel was previously the country Director of Resolve to Save Lives (an initiative of Vital Strategies) and led the team which established a national hypertension treatment and control initiative in collaboration with the World Health Organization and the Federal Ministry of Health. He is currently the Director for Pandemic Threats at FIND (the global alliance for diagnostics). He is also a consultant in family medicine with expertise in infectious diseases. He was a 2019 biosecurity leadership fellow at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Emmanuel loves reading, playing golf and travelling.

Olaniyi is a Principal Research Fellow and the Head, Department of Basic Sciences and Research at the Intercountry Center for Oral Health (ICOH) for Africa, located in Jos, Nigeria. He graduated as a dentist in 1999 from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and has master’s degrees in Public Health (MPH) from the University of Lagos, and in Clinical Research (MSc) from the University of Liverpool, where he was presented the prestigious dissertation of the year award. His PhD program was in Public Health (Epidemiology track) at Walden University, USA. He is a former President of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) Nigeria Division. Olaniyi loves pedagogy, travelling and playing indoor games.