Ambassador Dr. Margaret Dureke is a visionary LEADER and results-driven professional with over 26 years’ experience in business startups and development; leadership, and entrepreneurship. She has demonstrated a consistent record of success to analyze the viability of business ideas, develop creative strategies, and implement processes that produce results. Dr. Dureke is an excellent communicator and has a motivational management style with a proven history of building, guiding and retaining high-performance teams to develop and implement successful strategies.

Dr. Dureke is an accomplished and award-winning serial entrepreneur, publisher and author of several empowerment, self-development, business and self-help books. She also is known internationally as a skilled motivational and empowerment speaker.

Dr. Dureke deftly guides WETATi, a non-profit community based educational and economic empowerment network organization to educate and empower youths, students, next generation and millennials, and aspiring entrepreneurs about the importance of creating their own opportunities through a mindset shift and changing their narrative from a job seeking to an entrepreneurship mentality.

BACHELOR OF ARTS| 1986 Howard University Washington, DC

JURIS DOCTORATE IN LAW| 1989 Washington College of Law American University Washington, DC