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Hi everyone, and welcome to SCOA! My name is Ryan Jordan, and I am the CEO and a co-founder of SCOA. Africa is a continent with a fascinating history, incredible opportunities for growth, and some of the most amazing people in the world. At Harvard, and through conversations with fellow students across many top educational institutions, I realized that there was no institution to facilitate professional experience and relationships with Africa. While in Nigeria I had the chance to meet with a variety of stakeholders who encouraged me to take the plunge and make SCOA into a reality, and it is because of them that SCOA has become a living entity today. I am immensely excited and honored to begin working with students to introduce them to Africa, and to continue working with a variety of stakeholders to shape SCOA into a nonprofit that offers immense value to not only students interested in Africa, but also to our African partners themselves.
Thank you, and I am thrilled to welcome you to SCOA.
Ryan M. Jordan
CEO & Co-Founder of SCOA
At SCOA, we strive to bring together people who are interested about global business, good governance, and entrepreneurship. With Africa set to become the world's largest labor pool by 2050, and with immense room for increasing digital and capital penetration into Africa, the rest of the world cannot afford to write off Africa. We believe that it is important to build connections between the West and Africa now, in order to educate both sides about the challenges and opportunities of doing business in the other. Ultimately, we hope that every student or partner that is involved in SCOA will go on to build a transcontinental network that they can rely on in the future and that they are crafted into model representatives of their country and region.
Our team is made up of dedicated students who are passionate about business, consulting, and of course, Africa. SCOA operates through a set of university-affiliated organizations based at top schools across the US, UK, and Europe.
SCOA was founded in 2024 by a group of students from various top US and UK universities who felt that Africa offered an enormous opportunity to both learn about business on the continent, but also help to connect with African businesses and institutions in a two-way learning exchange.
SCOA connects with a variety of stakeholders across Africa, including international companies with ties to Africa and institutions in the Caribbean. Our partners work with us to identify what areas we target in order to offer the best learning experience and have greatest impact on the continent.
SCOA is committed to cultivating the best opportunities and partnerships across Africa, and we aim to continue expanding our conversations with stakeholders across Africa.
We are currently working with partners in Nigeria, Ghana, and South Africa. Over the next two years we aim to establish partnerships in the DRC, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Morocco, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.
In our first year, we aim to connect 200 students across 10 universities to 25-50 African businesses, institutions, and stakeholders. By 2029 we aim to connect 2000 students across 50 universities to 500 African stakeholders.
SCOA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to facilitating consulting and operator opportunities for students in Africa and for African companies, while providing the opportunity for African institutions to engage with and leverage the expertise and networks of top students from the West.
There are many ways to get involved with SCOA, such as volunteering, making a donation, or attending one of our events. You can get involved with a chapter at your university, or you can reach out to us about setting up a new chapter.
SCOA offers educational and work experience. We work to partner with elite and world-class institutions that have operations and opportunities in Africa while also allowing students to work directly with African stakeholders.
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