Mrs. Ozavize E. Salami is an education consultant, investment banker and accountant who currently serves as the Executive Chairman of the Edo State Universal Basic Education Board (EdoSUBEB), a public sector agency of the Edo State Government that is responsible for administering public and privately-funded interventions for the growth and sustainability of quality basic education in Edo State. Since coming into office in November 2021, Mrs. Salami has dedicated herself to leading a game-changing team of public servants committed to further reducing the number of out-of-school children in Edo state, improving learning outcomes in classrooms, and ensuring the prevalence of technologically-enabled learning via the continuous training of digitally literate teachers and usage of smart electronic learning devices across primary and junior secondary schools in Edo State. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Accounting (Second Class Upper) from the University of Benin, Edo State and is an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN). She was previously the Chief Executive Officer of Stonebridges Learning Educational Resources, an education and learning resource training Centre which she founded in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State. With over 23 years of diversified professional experience in education, accounting, investment banking, sales, marketing, customer service and the public sector, Mrs. Salami has also displayed commendable entrepreneurial capacity and future-centered innovation by building important cross-cultural, global relationships as she oversees the local and international strategic direction of her bookshop business.