Funmi Olorunnipa Badejo

Funmi Olorunnipa Badejo currently serves as Special Assistant to the President and Associate Counsel in the White House Counsel’s Office. Her prior government service includes General Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, Counsel for Policy to the Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, Ethics Counsel at the White House Counsel’s Office, and Attorney Advisor at the Administrative Conference of the United States. Olorunnipa Badejo began her legal career as an associate with the law firm of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP and previously served as Legal Counsel at Palantir Technologies Inc. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and the University of Florida. The proud daughter of Nigerian immigrants and raised in Tallahassee, Florida, Olorunnipa Badejo lives in Washington D.C. with her husband and son.