Since 2002 Stategic Agenda has grown on the back of strong demand for a high quality, personalised translation service.
Our Management Team
Dr. Fola Yahaya
Dr. Yahaya is Managing Partner of Strategic Agenda LLP.
Prior to founding Strategic Agenda, Fola worked as an economic consultant for both the United Nations and World Bank, and as a strategy consultant for clients including the Government of Qatar, the Foreign & Commonwealth office, BP and Morgan Stanley.
Fola received a PhD in information infrastructure in Africa from the London School of Economics in 2000.
Fola speaks English, French, Spanish and Danish
Maria Janum
With over12 years as a linguist working on content for international clients such as Microsoft and the BBC, Maria co-founded the Strategic Agenda. Maria has a degree in Internation Business and has managed complex translation projects for clients such as the United Nations. Maria is a fluent English and Danish speaker.
Lai Yahaya
Lai is lawyer, economist and public policy analyst who has spent more than a decade working for the World Bank, the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on economic development projects in Africa. He was most recently Senior Policy Adviser with the Nigeria Infrastructure Advisory Facility (NIAF), which recently won the prestigious British Expertise Development Project of the Year award.
Prior to this, Lai worked as a corporate attorney with the leading Wall Street law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, based in New York and London and then as General Counsel to Gasol Plc (a London Stock Exchange AIM listed company).
Lai received his BA (Hons) and MA from Oxford University and was a qualified solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. He was recently awarded a Fellowship at the African Leadership Institute by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and was nominated as a New Leader for Tomorrow by the Fondation du Forum Universale. He is currently a Gleitsman Fellow at the Harvard University J. F. Kennedy School of Government.
Laure Journaud
Laure has over four years experience as a French translation project manager in France. Laure combines several skills: languages, management, communication, commercial and a deep understanding of the corporate world. She has a masters degree in Translation/Localisation from the University of Haute Bretagne and a BA from the University of Nantes in France. Laure’s technical skills include DTP with Adobe CS5
Our translators
As most of our work involves translating complex content in specialist fields such as international development economics, human rights and labour law, and international financial regulation we only use subject matter experts
Our translation team is made up of 310 linguists with extensive experience of translating similar documents into their native tongue.
Our translators pass a stringent vetting process to ensure that they can deliver to the high quality levels expected by our clients.
