Premium Times business and economy editor, Oladeinde Olawoyin, has been chosen to participate in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) programme in Vienna, Austria. He was selected alongside a group of leading energy editors and correspondents from around the world. The IAEA stated that the programme will delve into key aspects of its work amid growing global interest in nuclear power. It will also cover nuclear science and technology in areas such as food, power, environment, industry, agriculture, finance, and more.
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The programme assembles top journalists from across the globe and includes field visits, travel, press conferences, discussions with IAEA experts, and social events. Mr Olawoyin was pictured at the Vienna International Center in Austria.
Profile of Oladeinde Olawoyin
Mr Olawoyin is a multi-award-winning journalist with extensive experience covering the oil and gas industry, business, capital markets, finance, agriculture, power, maritime, economic development, and public policy. In October 2024, he was a fellow in the International Visitors’ Leadership Program (IVLP) for professional leaders in Trade, Finance, and Development, alongside 21 other participants, supported by the US Government.
In October 2022, he was named Business Reporter of the Year at the West African Media Excellence Awards (WAMECA) in Accra, Ghana. That same year, he was a finalist at both the DAME and PwC Awards in Lagos. In 2020, he was selected as a finalist among journalists from across Africa at the Sanlam Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism in South Africa. He was among 12 journalists worldwide shortlisted for the Thomson Foundation Young Journalist Award in 2019. That year, he also won the Capital Market Reporter of the Year category at the PwC Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism. He was among three winners of the African Media Development Foundation (AMDF) Awards held in Kaduna.
His other recognitions include the 2018 Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Reporting, a 2018 fellowship of the Natural Resource Governance Institute, a 2019 fellowship of the African Science Literacy Network, the 2020 Climate Tracker Journalism Fellowship, and the 2021 International Centre for Journalists (ICFJ) Fellowship, among others.
In December 2018, he was named a ‘Global Goalkeeper’ by the Gates Foundation alongside other young African journalists, in recognition of his reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals. Earlier, in 2017, Mr Olawoyin was nominated in the journalism category of The Future Awards Africa, the 2018 West Africa Media Excellence Awards (WAMECA) in Ghana, and the Nigerian Breweries Golden Pen Awards in Lagos. He has attended courses on business, finance, economics, agriculture, energy, and capital market reporting in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, the UK, the US, and other parts of the world.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication from the University of Ilorin, graduating with a First Class and as the best student in the department. He also holds a Master’s degree in Mass Communication from the University of Lagos. As business editor at Premium Times, Mr Olawoyin has led several editorial and investigative projects, supervised teams of reporters, and mentored numerous journalists within and outside the organization. He has also led the Premium Times editorial team in producing the newspaper’s annual banking report, a special publication providing insights into the Nigerian banking sector for analysts, investors, and market observers. His work has been published in national and international media outlets, including Finance Uncovered (London) and The New York Times.
