Toyin Saraki Joins German Organisation as Member of Sustainability Council

Kuni Tyessi in Abuja

German organization Bayer AG has announced the appointment of founder and president of the Wellbeing Foundation Africa, Mrs. Toyin Saraki as a member of its Sustainability Council.

Saraki joins a distinguished group of global experts tasked with advancing the company’s sustainability strategy, with a focus on health equity, food security, and climate resilience.

In her acceptance speech yesterday, Saraki said with her appointment, she hopes to bring more than two decades of experience in maternal, newborn, and child health, gender equity, and the strengthening of community health systems across Africa and worldwide.

According to her, to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, the collective responsibility is to ensure that sustainability is not an abstract ideal, but a lived reality, especially for the most vulnerable populations.

 “It is an honour to join Bayer’s Sustainability Council at such a pivotal moment for our planet and its people.

“In this spirit of being Stronger Together, I look forward to contributing my insights from frontline reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health and nutrition, and to strengthening the link between community health systems and corporate sustainability commitments” she said.

The restructuring of Bayer’s independent Sustainability Council was unveiled yesterday with five new members welcomed into the advisory body.

Alongside Mrs. Saraki, the new appointees include Facundo Etchebehere, Lisa Lange, Philipp Roesler, and Cori Wittman Stitt.

The Council provides high-level guidance to Bayer’s leadership, helping to shape and monitor the company’s progress towards its global sustainability goals.

It is hoped that through her leadership at the Wellbeing Foundation Africa and advisory roles with international institutions, Mrs Saraki has consistently championed the alignment of public health delivery with human rights, gender justice, and sustainable development.