…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 vital consequential communications leaders on this planet and the one Nigerian on this 12 months’s record.
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 status on the highest stage.
Printed yearly by PRovoke Media and now in its thirteenth 12 months, the Affect 100 identifies probably the most impactful senior communications, company affairs and advertising executives worldwide. The 2025 record displays a quickly altering world atmosphere by which communications has developed from a assist perform right into a core pillar of management, governance and belief constructing amid geopolitical uncertainty, technological disruption and heightened public scrutiny.
In line with PRovoke Media, the leaders recognised this 12 months reveal strategic readability, cultural intelligence and the flexibility to information organisations by means of complexity. Remaining choices are made by the publication’s senior editorial staff by means 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 path. The record additionally prioritises gender steadiness, racial variety and geographic illustration.
In line with the publication, Chiejina’s inclusion displays his central function in shaping the status 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 a logo of African industrial ambition.
“As group head of company communications, he oversees exterior and inside status throughout a number of sectors spanning cement, agriculture, vitality and shopper items, and has helped steer the model’s continued recognition as probably the most admired indigenous firm on the continent,” it mentioned.
Beneath his management, the group’s communications perform has navigated complicated 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 Financial institution, Oceanic Financial institution, Seven Up Bottling Firm, the African Financial Digest (AED) and African Harmony, experiences which have given him deep perception into Nigeria’s political economic system, monetary markets and media panorama. That breadth of expertise continues to tell Dangote Group’s engagement with stakeholders at house 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 status administration. As communications turns into more and more central to how organisations lead and earn belief, Chiejina’s presence on the record 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 12 months’s record displays a robust cross part of communications management from a few 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 sturdy, with 58 ladies and 42 males featured, sustaining a feminine majority for the second consecutive 12 months.
The 2025 Affect 100 can also be probably the most extremely educated cohort up to now, with all honourees holding at the least a primary diploma and 56 per cent possessing superior {qualifications}, up sharply from earlier years.
