Michael Ohajuru

https://about.me/michaelohajuru/

Michael I. Ohajuru holds an Honorary Doctorate from the Open University (2024), is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (2022) Senior Fellow of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (2014) with honours degrees in Physics (Leeds, 1974) and Art History (Open University, 2008).
He retired in 2014 after a twenty-five-year career holding senior positions in international sales and marketing in the data and mobile communications industry, he lives in South London with partner the artist Ebun Culwin.
Michael blogs, writes and speaks regularly on the black presence in Renaissance Europe, he has spoken at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, the National Gallery, London, National Portrait Gallery, Tate Britain, British Library, National Archives and the Victoria Albert Museum on the subject.
Founder of Image of the Black in London Galleries a series of gallery tours highlighting the overt and covert black presences to be found in the national art collections in London.
He is the Project Director and Chief Evangelist of The John Blanke Project: a contemporary Art and Archive project celebrating John Blanke the Black trumpeter to courts of Henry VII and Henry VII now in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery and National Archive.
Michael was co-convener of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies What’s Happening in Black British History series of workshops fostering a creative dialogue between researchers, educationalists (mainstream and supplementary), archivists and curators, and policy makers, a series of 10 workshops over five years and is a founder member of the Black Presence in British Portraiture network, managing their podcast – The BP2 Podcast.