Awa Michael is a member of the Board of Trustee of ITET Gem Foundation. Awa is a chartered accounting professional with over 9 years’ experience in auditing. She started her professional career at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the assurance practice division where she performed audit and consulting work for companies across the energy and utilities sector, financial industry and public sector. She moved to the Development Bank of Nigeria as the Specialist Financial Audit in 2018. Currently she is the Head Internal Audit at Impact Credit Guarantee Limited (a subsidiary of the Development Bank of Nigeria).
She is an Accountancy graduate of the University of Maiduguri, Nigeria and holds an MBA from Quantic School of Business and Technology, Washington, DC, USA. She is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and holds several certifications on information security and audits.
Awa is passionate about financial inclusion and offers her time to mentorship activities which support the ingraining of a growth mindset in the Nigerian youth.