| Intro | Nigerian civil servant |
| Is | Civil servant |
| From | Nigeria |
| Type | Politics |
| Gender | female |
Mariam Temitope Masha is the Senior Special Assistant to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigerian on Humanitarian Interventions. Prior to that appointment, she served as the Senior Special Assistant to the President of Nigeria on Internally Displaced Persons . She has also served as a Strategic Advisor to the Vice President on North-East Interventions. She is a member of the five-man Board of Trustees for the North East Children Trust (NECT), where she serves in the capacity as the Executive Secretary , and a visiting lecturer at the African Leadership Center (ALC) of Kings College, London.
Personal life
Mariam Masha, a native of Lagos state, was born in Lagos state. She is married and has two children.
Education
Mariam obtained a Bachelor of Dental Surgery degree from the University of Lagos, Lagos State, in 2000. Three years later, she bagged a Master of Public Health (MPH) from John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2013, Mariam became an Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellow , and in 2015 she obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Organizational Leadership from the University of Oxford UK.
Career
After her first degree, Mariam worked as a Dental House Officer in Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH. Then, she traveled to the United States to pursue a Post Doctorate degree from John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. There, she carried out primary research on the burden of disease from road traffic injuries in Sub Saharan Africa, and South Asia. She returned to Nigeria where she served as an Executive Secretary for the Arrive Alive Road Safety Initiative and became the World Health Organization (WHO) country consultant on Road Traffic Injury Prevention in Nigeria. While she served in that capacity, she doubled as a board member of the World Health Organization (WHO) MENTOR-VIP core group. Mariam has served in the public sector for over twelve years, starting as the Senior Special Assistant to the 13 Governor of Lagos State on Transport Education, where she worked on transport sector reform through human capacity development. She held the position for two consecutive terms (2007 – 2015).
In June 2015, Mariam was appointed the role of Senior Special Assistant to the President of Nigeria on Internally Displaced Person by the Buhari Administration. She served as the Project Lead for the execution of the Recovery and Peace Building Assessment (RPBA) on behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria in collaboration with World Bank, European Union and United Nations where she developed the report which was used as the basis for producing the North East development plan.
In October 2019, Mariam represented the Federal Government in hosting the Nigeria Side event at the 74 United Nations General Assembly, “Tackling Poverty for Greater Inclusion in A Digital Age” which held in the United Nations Headquarters.