Akinbode Matthew Oluwafemi is the Founder and Executive Director of Corporate Accountability & Public Participation Africa (CAPPA). He has more than two decades of professional experience spanning grassroots organizing, policy advocacy, public health, environmental justice, and movement building across Africa.
Prior to establishing CAPPA, Akinbode served as the Deputy Executive Director of Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), where he headed the Lagos office and coordinated the organization’s Tobacco Control and Water Campaigns. His work included policy engagement, community mobilization, and strengthening civil society responses to corporate practices affecting health, the environment, and access to essential services.
Akinbode has contributed extensively to regional initiatives on tobacco control, public health advocacy, corporate accountability, climate justice, and the protection of natural resources. He is also the convener of the Our Water, Our Right Coalition, which advocates against the privatization of water services in Lagos and supports public, accountable, and equitable water governance models in Africa.
He is a recipient of the Bloomberg Award for Global Tobacco Control, recognizing his contribution to advancing tobacco control policies in the region.
Before transitioning into full-time advocacy, Akinbode worked as a journalist with The Guardian Nigeria, participating in press freedom efforts during the military era of General Sani Abacha.
He currently serves on the boards of several national and international non-profit organizations, providing strategic guidance on public health, environmental governance, and social justice issues.
