<p>Bilikiss is the founder of Wecyclers Nigeria Limited (Wecyclers), a for-profit social enterprise that promotes&nbsp;<br>environmental sustainability, social welfare, and community health by utilizing low-cost cargo bicycles called&nbsp;<br>“wecycles” to provide convenient recycling services to households in densely populated low-income&nbsp;<br>neighborhoods. Wecyclers motivates families to recycle through an SMS-based incentive program that rewards&nbsp;<br>them with points for consistent recycling that can be converted to cell phone minutes, basic food items, and&nbsp;<br>household goods.</p><p><br>Under her leadership, Wecyclers has established partnerships with Lagos State Government and the Lagos&nbsp;<br>Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) and since 2012 has registered over 27,000 households and diverted&nbsp;<br>over 15,000 metric tons of recyclable materials from landfills into productive reuse in Nigeria.&nbsp;<br>Bilikiss completed an MBA at the Sloan of School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of&nbsp;<br>Technology, and as a student she was a Legatum Fellow at MIT’s Legatum Center for Development and&nbsp;<br>Entrepreneurship and Vice President of the MIT Sloan Africa Business Club. Additionally, she holds an MSc. in&nbsp;<br>Computer Science from Vanderbilt University, and a BSc. in Computer Science from Fisk University. She is a&nbsp;<br>Carroll Wilson Fellow, an Echoing Green Fellow and a 2013 recipient of the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards.<br>Bilikiss is also an active public speaker, reaching audiences in Nigeria and beyond. She was recognized with the&nbsp;<br>2018 Guardian Seven Wonder Women Award and a 2021 City of New York (CUNY) Public Health Champion&nbsp;<br>Award. Bilikiss also published a patent during her time as a Software Engineer with IBM.&nbsp;</p><p><br>After serving as the General Manager of the Lagos State Parks and Gardens Agency (LASPARK), Bilikiss was&nbsp;<br>deployed as the Director-General of the Lagos State Records and Archives Bureau (LASRAB) to ensure the&nbsp;<br>maintenance of historic, modern and credible information that meet the needs and interest of the State.<br>In addition to her role at LASRAB, Bilikiss was also a member of the pioneer Board of Trustees of the Lagos&nbsp;<br>State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF).&nbsp;</p><p><br>In January 2022, Bilikiss was appointed as the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Heineken Africa&nbsp;<br>Foundation, an independent philanthropic foundation of the Heineken Company.</p><p><br>Areas of Expertise<br>Public Service |Social Enterprise | Recycling | Economic Opportunity | Sustainable Developmen</p>