Seun Omobo is the Senior Adviser to Nigeria's Foreign Minister. Her current activities include Managing the Nigerian Economic Diplomacy Initiative(NEDI); a programme which provides international market access to local Nigerian businesses and was launched by the Vice-President of Nigeria in April 2018. Apart from introducing Economic Diplomacy into Nigeria's Foreign Policy, she is also responsible for the country's Citizens Diplomacy in the Foreign Ministry. Seun has years of experience in public sector reforms as well as national development. She served as the Adviser to the Nigerian Senate on Healthcare matters where she ensured the development and the passage of several critical healthcare bills inclusing the Medicines Anticounterfeiting Bill while ensuring Federal Healthcare financing aligns with national health priorities. Before now, she served as the Technical Head of the Nigeria's Medicines Regulatory Agency(NAFDAC). She has her background in Pharmacy and is currently undergoing her post graduate studies in Global Health at the Johns Hopkins University, USA. For over three years, she has worked in various capacities within the World Health Organization (WHO) Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. She also worked as a consultant to the WHO managing the Prequalification of Medicines programme in Nigeria and neighbouring West African countries. Her work in the past three years has produced the first four companies in Sub Saharan West Africa to attain WHO standards of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP).
She founded the Young Pharmacist Group – Nigeria in 2012 and subsequently, the Young Pharmacists Group Nigeria Professional Travel Grant in 2014. There has been eighteen (18) beneficiaries of this grant to international trainings, all young pharmacists from all over Nigeria. She serves on several national committees, with mandate on improving the pharmaceutical profession and practice in Nigeria, but ultimately improving access to essential medicines for the people. In 2018 Seun was named one of the Most Influential People of African Descent and will be honoured alongside other distinguished Africans at the UN General Assembly in New York this year. She is a member of the Lagos Hub of the World Economic Forum Global Shapers Community. She is an associate of the Nigerian Leadership Initiative (NLI). She is a commissioner of the first ever Lancet Youth Commission on Essential Medicines Policy (YCEMP). She was recently elected the chairperson of young pharmacists all around the world, under the auspices of the International Pharmaceutical Federation –Young Pharmacists Group (FIPYPG) amongst others. She is passionate about access to Medicines in Africa, good leadership and currently working on ways of improving the economy by activating the economic section in all of Nigeria's 110 Embassies/Missions across the world.She loves to travel, read and network.