…solely Nigerian named amongst world’s strongest communications leaders
The group chief branding and communications officer, Dangote Group, Anthony Chiejina, has been named to the distinguished 2025 Affect 100, reaffirming his standing as one of the consequential communications leaders on the planet and the one Nigerian on this yr’s listing.
The popularity marks Chiejina’s fifth consecutive look on the worldwide rating, having beforehand been listed in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, a uncommon distinction that underscores each consistency and sustained world relevance. His continued presence locations him amongst an elite group of in-house communicators whose judgement, affect and strategic perception form company popularity on the highest degree.
Revealed yearly by PRovoke Media and now in its thirteenth yr, the Affect 100 identifies essentially the most impactful senior communications, company affairs and advertising executives worldwide. The 2025 listing displays a quickly altering world surroundings during which communications has developed from a help perform right into a core pillar of management, governance and belief constructing amid geopolitical uncertainty, technological disruption and heightened public scrutiny.
In keeping with PRovoke Media, the leaders recognised this yr exhibit strategic readability, cultural intelligence and the flexibility to information organisations by way of complexity. Closing picks are made by the publication’s senior editorial workforce by way of proprietary analysis and exterior nominations, assessed in opposition to organisational seniority and world attain, affect over company partnerships and budgets, and contribution to thought management and business course. The listing additionally prioritises gender steadiness, racial variety and geographic illustration.
In keeping with the publication, Chiejina’s inclusion displays his central position in shaping the popularity of Dangote Group, Africa’s largest industrial conglomerate. For over 15 years, he has overseen company communications throughout the group’s numerous portfolio, spanning cement, agriculture, vitality, manufacturing and shopper items. His stewardship has been instrumental in positioning Dangote because the continent’s most admired indigenous firm and an emblem of African industrial ambition.
“As group head of company communications, he oversees exterior and inside popularity throughout a number of sectors spanning cement, agriculture, vitality and shopper items, and has helped steer the model’s continued recognition as essentially the most admired indigenous firm on the continent,” it stated.
Underneath his management, the group’s communications perform has navigated advanced regulatory environments, main industrial expansions and heightened world consideration, significantly as Dangote deepens its footprint throughout Africa and advances sustainability and vitality safety initiatives.
Earlier than becoming a member of Dangote Group, Chiejina held senior roles at Zenith Bank, Oceanic {Bank}, Seven Up Bottling Firm, the African {Economic} Digest (AED) and African Harmony, experiences which have given him deep perception into Nigeria’s political economic system, {financial} markets and media panorama. That breadth of expertise continues to tell Dangote Group’s engagement with stakeholders at dwelling and overseas.
His sustained recognition on the Affect 100 highlights not solely private skilled excellence, but additionally the rising visibility of African company management in world popularity administration. As communications turns into more and more central to how organisations lead and earn belief, Chiejina’s presence on the listing reinforces Nigeria’s place within the world dialog shaping the way forward for the career.
The 2025 Affect 100 contains 28 new entrants, alongside a number of excessive profile re entries by senior communications leaders who’ve since taken on expanded world roles. These embody Michael Stewart, who moved from PwC to Unilever; Michael Gonda, from McDonald’s to Nike; and Sandy Rodriguez, additionally from McDonald’s to Eli Lilly.
This yr’s listing displays a strong cross part of communications management from a number of the world’s most influential organisations, together with Walmart, Apple, Shell, Microsoft, Nvidia, Nissan, Coca Cola, Google, Lufthansa, MTN, Emirates, Ford, Marriott, Tencent and Reliance Industries amongst others.
In whole, 20 international locations are represented, highlighting the worldwide attain and strategic significance of senior in home communications management. Gender illustration stays robust, with 58 ladies and 42 males featured, sustaining a feminine majority for the second consecutive yr.
The 2025 Affect 100 can also be essentially the most extremely educated cohort thus far, with all honourees holding no less than a primary diploma and 56 per cent possessing superior {qualifications}, up sharply from earlier years.
