Funmilayo Ayeni is the Country Director for IPA Nigeria. Prior to joining IPA, Funmi conducted research and evaluations across several sectors including education, financial inclusion, mobile money, governance, and community empowerment. She has more than 15 years of research project management experience and more than 10 years of hands-on experience supervising large field teams working in last-mile communities across Africa and India. Funmi holds an MBA from Lagos Business School and a BSc in Physiology from the University of Ibadan.