Adiat Disu

Adiat Sade Disu (born 1988) is an American marketing communications executive in mass media, advertising, information technology, and consumer products. Her parents are Nigerian and Ghanaian. Adirée founded the annual consumer-marketing & media platform AfricaFashionWeek.com, with off-shoots in local cities (such as Africa Fashion Week New York during New York Fashion Week in 2009).

Disu also writes for Entrepreneur magazine.

Background and education Disu studied at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. She graduated from Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts in 2008, with a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, Marketing & Communications. She then atteded Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, where she received executive education in Digital Leadership and Management. 2011: Washington Post, Creatives Bringing Africa to the World 2011: Bullet Magazine, Wrap It Up 2012: Black Enterprise, Everyday Hero 2013: Huffington Post, founder of Africa Fashion Week, produced by Adirée 2013: Huffington Post, Africa Fashion Week 2013: Global Post, Adiree, communications and brand strategy firm 2014: Forbes Magazine, "30 Under 30" 2015: The Africa Channel, Adirée 2016: Huffington Post, Adiat Disu, entrepreneur, and Forbes "30 Under 30" 2017: Entrepreneur magazine, information technology and communications executive