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Adeyemi-Levites: From medical school to chartered accountancy
Lara Adejoro
Oluwadamilare Adeyemi-Levites studied medicine due to parental influence and environmental pressure despite wanting to study Economics or Finance.
After six years in medical school, one year of internship, and a year as a medical officer, he decided to hang his stethoscope for healthcare financing, risk management, and insurance.
Adeyemi-Levites said apart from going after his passion, poor remuneration, inadequate resources, and poor working environment helped form his decision of transitioning to another career.
To launch into his new career direction, he wrote the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants exams to become a chartered accountant, seven years ago.
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Oluwaseun Praise Adefusi is a secondary school certificate holder who is now a Chartered Accountant. In this interview with
ENIOLA OYEMOLADE, the 20-year-old speaks on how she achieved this feat, the challenges she faced, among others.
What made you think about accounting?
As a child, anytime people asked me, I would just say I want to be a banker. So when I got to secondary school, I just decided to go to commercial class since what I wanted was to be a banker but then, I did not have accounting in mind, it was economics I had in mind, but then it just happened. That was when I started ATS.
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Singapore However one looks at the matter, the new Surbana Jurong Group chairman comes with a very impressive resume indeed.
On Dec 29, 2020, the high-profile infrastructure consultancy company announced that Mah Chee Kheong, more popularly known as Chaly Mah, would succeed former chairman Mr Liew Mun Leong.
Mr Liew stepped down from his positions at Surbana Jurong, Changi Airport Group, Temasek Foundation and Temasek International in September after the acquittal of his family’s former domestic helper, Indonesian national Ms Parti Liyani, from theft charges.
Ms Parti’s case had made headlines in Singapore due to the prominence of her former employer. Mr Liew, 74, said on Sept 10 that he did not wish his “situation to be a distraction to their respective boards, management, and staff, amid their many critical priorities”.