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Mrs. Funke Adekoya, S.A.N., is a legal practitioner and partner in the firm of Aelex. She graduated from the University of Ife in 1974, and received her LLM from Harvard Law School in 1977. She was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1975 and qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2004. In 1986 she was appointed a Notary Public, and in 2001 was elevated to the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (S.A.N.). She has been a member of the Body of Benchers since 1999 and was elevated to Life Bencher in March 2007. In 2007 she was voted the Most Outstanding Female Legal Practitioner of the Year by Financial Standard Newspaper and Women Entrepreneurs African Network. She is very active in the field of arbitration and is a Vice President of the LCIA African Users Council and a member of Nigeria’s ICC National Committee. She lectures regularly on arbitration law and procedure.

She was the 1st Vice President (2002/04) of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA); a past President and member of Council of the NBA’s Section on Legal Practice; the immediate past Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Nigeria Branch), and a life member of the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA).

Professor (Mrs.) Muriel Oyediran qualified as a medical doctor in 1965, and started her career at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (“LUTH”), later moving to the College of Medicine of the University of Lagos. She was appointed an Honorary Consultant to LUTH in 1972, and subsequently appointed Professor of Community Health in the Department of Community Health. From 2003-2005, she was Ag. Chairman of the Institute of Child Health and Primary Care of the College of Medicine. She held numerous academic and administrative positions in the College of Medicine and University of Lagos during her 40 odd years of service before retiring in 2006. She was then appointed Adjunct Professor in the Department of Community Health and Primary Care, a position she held until 2011. 
Professor Oyediran was elected to the Corona Schools Trust Council in 1981, and in 1992 was appointed a Trustee to the Council and elected as Chairman for 2 consecutive terms of office (2001 - 2009). She relinquished her membership of the Trust Council in 2011, but remains active as a Trustee and was elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees in 2011