Councillor at the World Future Council among 49 other well known personalities. Abiola-Costello is an advisory council member at the Fetzer Institute as well as the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. In July 2011, she was appointed the Special Adviser to the Governor of Ogun State with responsibility for achieving the Millennium Development Goals. In 2016, she was re-appointed Special Adviser to Governor Ibikunle Amosun in Ogun State Personal life In 2001 she married British economist and diplomat Nicholas Costello. They have 2 children, Khalil and Anabella. Awards and recognition In 2000, Abiola was honoured as a Global Leader of Tomorrow at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In 2003, she was elected as a Fellow of the Ashoka: Innovators for the Public in recognition of her international status as a social entrepreneur. In 2006 she was nominated to be a founding councillor at the World Future Council A 2014 documentary, "The Supreme Price" details the story of Hafsat Abiola and how both her parents paid a terrible cost in their quest for a better, freer Nigeria. It was directed by Joanna Lipper, a lecturer at Harvard University, who tells the story from Hafsat's perspective. The documentary also includes interviews with Walter Carrington, former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria, and Nobel Prize-winning writer Wole Soyinka. In 2015 she was chosen to be one of 21 women who met for a conference at Harvard University Kennedy School of Government funded by Hunt Alternatives. The group included Judy Thongori from Kenya, Fauzia Nasreen from Pakistan and Olufunke Baruwa, Esther Ibanga and Ayisha Osori also from Nigeria.Some of her other awards and recognitions include: Youth Peace and Justice Award of the Cambridge Peace Commission, 1997 State of the World Forum Changemaker Award, 1998 Woman to Watch for Award, 1999 Global Leader of Tomorrow Award, World Economic Forum, 2000 Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Global Award, 2001 Seeking Common Ground Award, 2007 Andover Alumni Award of Distinction, 2013 Goi Peace Award, 2016 Foreign Policy Diplomat of the Year Award, 2016 National Civil Rights Museum’s Freedom Award, 2019 See also Hasfat Abiola (oral history and transcript), Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security Equipping entrepreneurs for survival and success in post-pandemic Africa (interview with Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala) Africa, China, and Women (essay) by Hafsat Abiola Nigeria's Orphan (profile), Time magazine (1998) Notes External links KIND WIA Initiative Ashoka Fellow (2003) Nigerian democracy activists Nigerian human rights activists