Sola Oluwadare is the Assistant Director; supervising the Trade Promotion Department of the Chamber. He is a change and stakeholder management strategist, transformational essayist, a community mobiliser, an academic and public policy advocate with educational background in Economics. He graduated from the then-University of Ado Ekiti (Ekiti State University) with B.Sc. Economics in 2001 and in University of Ibadan, Nigeria, with M.Sc. Economics (specializing in public sector economics) in 2005. In 2018, he was trained in “Branding and Marketing of Products Utilising Local Resources” through the Knowledge Co-Creation Programme of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, Nagoya, Japan. As a marketing communication expert, he has worked in the domains of journalism, media and public relations, marketing communications, exhibition and event management, government affairs management, strategy development and project management for almost 2 decades. Apart from being a NECO/WAEC examiner in his early years of developing career, Oluwadare currently serves as an Associate Lecturer at Lagos State University Consult in conjunction with the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Programme, covering Comparative Management and Administration, Labour Economics, and Learning and Development and Family Business Development. He has attended trainings and conferences in Asia, and several parts of Africa including South Africa, Ghana, Algeria and Kenya. Oluwadare is a member of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations and the Nigerian Institute of Management. His career has taken him through private and public schools in Nigeria, Nigerian Tribune Newspapers - as Business Analyst, African Institute for Applied Economics (now African Heritage Institution), as Communication and Stakeholder Relations Manager, Skool Media Nigeria Limited, as Head of Corporate Communication, and currently now heads Trade Promotion Department at Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In LCCI, through the years, he has been coordinating the trade, exhibition and technology hub of the annual Lagos International Trade Fair, which is the biggest and unarguably the best general fair organized in sub-Sahara Africa. The Fair, which is held annually at Tafawa Balewa Square, gathers an average of 2,000 exhibitors from different continents and it is attended by over 350,000 visitors for the 10-day period. He has served as the Secretary of the Imesi-Ile Economic Development Committee that organized the maiden edition of Imesi Ile Baba Re A Gbe Economic Summit, under Imesi Ile Progressive Association, on 16th April 2022; the first of its kind in entire Ijesha North of Osun State Nigeria. He singlehandedly wrote the concept note that gave birth to the Summit. He was also the first Chairman Organising Committee of Aje Day,Imesi-Ile (an entrepreneurship development exhibition and summit), held on September 29, 2023, which was also the second in Osun State, following Ile Ife. He is currently the National General Secretary of Imesi-Ile Progressive Association, the umbrella body of all associations, societies and clubs in Imesi-Ile, Osun State Nigeria. His purpose is to add value to the world and to leave everything and everyone better than he met them.