John Ede has been President/CEO since 2013 at Ohaha Family Foundation, a Nigeria based NGO working to alleviate human suffering, deliver social protection and lifesaving interventions to vulnerable groups. He has been engaged in social protection and humanitarian work for around 2 decades, providing leadership, policy advocacy, partnership and programme management in conflicts and forced displacement settings for Protection of Civilians, promoting gender equality, and increasing access to healthcare in the region through different NGOs and networks. He is a member of the Civil Society Regional Reference Group of the Spotlight Imitative African Regional Programme, invitee to the Grand-Bargain-Localization-Workstream, Inter-Agency-Standing-Committee-Result-Group-3, co-facilitator Country-Level-Dialogue-on-localization, co-chair Advocacy Working Group Charter-for-Change, panellist UNDSS Security Symposium, 4-time speaker selection committee member UN-NGLS.