Lucien Obama

Co-founder of the AECD Foundation, Lucien is also the originator of “People should be happy where they live.” He was born in Yaoundé, Cameroon and adopted by a family in Switzerland as a young boy. He has a degree in accounting and broad experience in business management, owning and operating two retail stores in his adopted country. An original manager of Team KKO, Lucien has a detailed vision of what the village of Afiri will be, and how it can serve as a model for locally-led community development in Cameroon and beyond.