Babatunde (Babs) Jolayemi Omotowa, born in Nigeria to farmer and educationist parents. He was a college teacher before working 26 years with Shell in Nigeria and Europe, where he started in a storeroom and rose to become CEO of Nigeria LNG Ltd, the largest industrial plant in Sub-Sahara Africa. He later became Shell's Upstream Vice-President covering Climate Change, Environment and Safety, across 40 countries. A former Global President of UK Chartered Institute Procurement and Supply, he has spoken at the World Economic Summit, Universities (Harvard and MIT) and at many global conferences.