Matilda Kerry is a physician and TV presenter, currently a co-host on the Nigerian version of '' The Doctors''. She first achieved national fame as the winner of the

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in 2000.

Education

Kerry attended Federal Girls College, Benin, where she obtained her WAEC certificate. Following her secondary education, she gained admission into the University of Lagos to study

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. She also holds a master's degree in public health, is a member of the West African College of Public Health Physicians, and a Sexuality Leadership Development Fellow.

Pageants

In 2000, shortly after winning Miss Surulere, Kerry was crowned

, making her Nigeria's

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and Miss Universe representative. In 2001, she crowned her successor Agbani Darego who went on to become

later that year. She worked as a model between 2000 and 2006.

Career

Kerry graduated from the University of Lagos in 2006, and now practices medicine, specialising in community medicine. She is president of the George Kerry Life foundation, a foundation that gives awareness about non-communicable diseases (NCD's). She is part of the

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, a flagship program of President Barack Obama. In 2016, she was a Mandela Washington fellow, where she joined 1000 other young African leaders in Washington DC for the Presidential summit in 2016 to strategise on moving Africa forward.

References

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