Dr. Yerima Peter Tarfa is a foundation staff of the Department of Climate Change with over two (2) decades as an experienced professional in climate change and sustainable development field with a focus on climate change adaptation, climate finance and negotiation. His expertise spans across policy development, project operations, bilateral and multilateral cooperation, capacity building and advocacy.

Dr.  Tarfa chaired the committee responsible for the development of the National Adaptation Strategy and Plan of Action for Climate Change in Nigeria (NASPA-CCN) and also represented the Federal Ministry of Environment on the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) supported project on Building Nigeria’s Response to Climate Change (BNRCC) implemented by Nigeria Environmental Study Action Team (NEST).

Mr. Odili Onu is the Director, Revenue, Investment and Project Finance, Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission, responsible for the adequate utilisation of generated funds resulting from public–private partnership (PPP) contracts which will among other things be used for project development and monitoring funds, viability gap/annuity funds that will assist in the delivery of bankable and viable PPP projects.

Mr. Ross Oluyede is the Ag. Managing Director/CEO of The Infrastructure Bank PLC. He has over nineteen (19) years of professional experience advising clients across the public/private sectors on Infrastructure (Transport, Water, Power, Housing), Hospitality and Healthcare, as well as significant expertise in Public-Private Partnership, Transaction Advisory, Fund Management, Corporate and Project Finance.

Mr. Ade Adefeko is the Vice President Corporate & Government Relations, in charge of External Communication and Stakeholder

Management at Olam Nigeria Limited, a subsidiary of Olam International of Singapore. His twenty-seven (27) years professional career spans diverse sectors including Broadcast/Pay-Tv, FMCG Banking and Sports industry where he held senior management roles in Treasury, Credit and Operations.

Dr. Afolabi Olowookere is the Divisional Head, Economic, Research and Policy Management Economic Analysis Division of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Nigeria. He was at various times a Research Economist at the World Bank Office, Abuja, Head of Economic Research and Publications at Financial Derivatives Company, Lagos, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Econometrics and Allied Research, Department of Economics, University of Ibadan and an Associate Lecturer.

Mr. Frank Aigbogun is a media mogul, the Publisher/Chief Executive Officer of the BusinessDay, a print and online Media Group. He served as the Editor for Vanguard Newspaper for about eight (8) years before leaving to pursue his entrepreneurial ambition which led to setting up the BusinessDay Media Group, an international award-winning media house.

Patience Oniha joined the Debt Management Office (DMO) in 2008 as the Director, Market Development Department after a fulfilling career in the banking sector spanning over 22 years. In this capacity, Ms. Oniha actively engaged with public and private sector stakeholders for the sustainable development of the debt capital market. She also managed the successful issuance of Nigeria’s debut Eurobond in 2011 and dual-tranche Eurobonds in 2013.

Ms. Oniha was appointed Head of the Efficiency Unit at the Federal Ministry of Finance in November 2015, where she introduced a number of initiatives, resulting in savings estimated at N17 billion to the Government. On July 1, 2017 she was appointed Director-General of DMO.

She holds a first degree in Economics, a second degree in Finance, is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria.

Mr. Olamide Edun is an Executive Director at Lion’s Head Global Partners and a member of the African Local Currency Bond Fund team, focused on transaction origination and execution in West Africa. Mr.  Olamide Edun previously worked in the investment team at Synergy Capital, a private equity fund providing growth capital to Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) companies operating in Nigeria and Ghana. His experiences also include consulting projects for State Governments and Government sponsored institutions. Prior to this, he worked at Moelis & Company, advising United Kingdom and European funds and corporates on debt restructuring and recapitalisation transactions.

Ibrahim Kangiwa is a graduate of Management from Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto and has an MBA from the same university. Prior to joining the National Pension Commission (PenCom) in 2007, he worked at the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC), where he was a policy analyst. He currently heads the Market Analysis & Policy Unit within the Investment Supervision Department. The Unit is responsible for developing and updating the various Regulations and Guidelines on Investment of Pension Fund Assets as well as providing information on financial market activities. He is married with children.

Wura has a B.Sc. in Accounting from the University of San Francisco (summa cum laude) and MBA (specialising in the Management of Innovation and Technology) and Ph.D. in Organisational Behaviour (Sept 1997) from Imperial College, London University.

She has spoken at the 2013 International Payment Systems Conference in Abuja (on Governance of Financial Markets Infrastructure); Finance Week West Africa 2014 (on Women in Leadership).

She served on the Nigeria Financial Sector Strategy (FSS) 2020 Subcommittee on Human Capital Development Strategy and is a member of the Nigerian Chartered Institute of Bankers (CIBN) Research, Strategy and Advocacy Committee.

Ms. Ujunwa Ojemeni is the Senior Technical Adviser to the Honourable Commissioner for Energy & Mineral Resources for Lagos State. Her responsibilities include planning, devising and implementing strategies required to deliver reliable energy to the citizens of the State, review and revise relevant State energy policies, identify investment opportunities for private sector participation to improve energy supply while supporting the implementation agencies. She was previously a Senior Investment Associate of All On, a Nigerian off-grid energy impact investment company seeded by Shell.

Mr. Kolapo Joseph is an innovative and result oriented professional with over 13 years’ hands-on experience in investment banking in Nigeria. He is presently the GM/Head, Corporate Finance at North South Power Company Limited, a company established by a diverse group of Nigerian and African shareholders to own and operate a diverse and growing portfolio of electricity projects across Africa. He currently oversees the company’s 30-year concession of the 600MW Shiroro Hydroelectric power plant and the development of a 300MW solar power project in Nigeria

Mrs. Solape Hammond is the Special Adviser on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State. The Co-Founder/CEO of Impact Hub Lagos has been a business executive for over nineteen (19) years’ with experience in Management Consulting, Risk Management, Banking and Financial Advisory. She is a member of the International Women’s Society (IWS), Hospitals for Humanity (HFH) and the Nigerian Leadership Initiative (NLI). She serves as Secretary to the Board of Trustees for the Handicapped Education Foundation (HANDEF) and doubles as Chairperson of Keep Hope Alive Nigeria (KHAN) Regenesis, a not-for-profit organisation focused on bringing positive change to the vocational sector, particularly as relates to construction.

Bernardo Mariano is founder and managing partner of ERDesk, an investment banking and consulting firm focused in exchanges and global capital markets-related fintech. He has extensive experience in leading consulting teams on capital markets projects in emerging markets, including Russia, Turkey, Romania, India, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Peru, India, Dominican Republic and Korea, among others.

In particular, Bernardo has served as an advisor to the European Development Bank (EBRD) on the acquisition of stakes in stock exchanges as well an advisor in Turkey, Russia, Romania, Croatia and Slovenia.

Bernardo has received broad recognition for his in-depth coverage and consulting regularly quoted in the media, including The Wall Street Journal, FT and Traders Magazine, among others. The FIA (Future Industry Association), FIAB (Federación Iberoamericana de Bolsas), the World Exchange Congress and other organizations regularly invite Bernardo as a speaker to discuss market structure, regulation and emerging capital market technologies.

Bernardo is currently an independent board member of Zagreb Stock Exchange and Ljubljana Stock Exchange, an advisor to the think tank CSIS on capital markets, a board advisor to Bolsas y Mercados Argentinos (he proposed and executed the creation of BYMA in Argentina), and several private equity fund clients that invest in Exchanges.

Prior to founding ERDesk, Bernardo was COO of US-based electronic Broker Dealer Bulltick Capital Markets, President of Reuters’ Bondex (a fixed income analytics company), Director of Instinet and member of Instinet’s Strategic Committee, founder and partner of WestSide Consultants, one of the largest private banks in Uruguay today and the Co- founder of Latinstocks, one of the first online brokers in Latam.

Bernardo holds an MS in Economics from the University of Illinois and an MS in Finance from Columbia University.

Chinua is the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of InfraCredit. He has garnered over 15 years’ experience in corporate/structured finance and debt capital market roles. Chinua has a strong and practical know-how of local capital markets with a firm interest in market development. He has acted as a lead adviser in the establishment of key development finance institutions in Nigeria and led the establishment of InfraCredit as project manager. He is currently the chairperson of the Regulation Consolidation Sub-Committee of the FMDQ Debt Capital Market Development Project.

Chinua is registered as a sponsored individual with the SEC and served as a member of the Fixed Income Sub-Committee of the SEC Capital Market Committee. He previously worked in UBA Capital and was Managing Director of Dunn Loren Merrifield Advisory Partners, a corporate finance advisory firm. He holds an MSc in Finance & Financial Law from University of London and obtained a law degree from the University of Lagos. Chinua is a protagonist of Harvard Business School’s Case Study on Infrastructure in Nigeria: Unlocking Pension Fund Investments published in February 2018 and is being taught on HBS’s MBA Program.

Dr. Adeyemi Dipeolu is currently the Special Adviser to the President for Economic Matters in the Office of the Vice-President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He was Director of the Capacity Development Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and previously in the Nigerian Foreign Service, serving in Geneva, Switzerland; Pretoria, South Africa; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; and Caracas, Venezuela.

Emomotimi John Agama is a Chartered Management Accountant, Economist, Investment Analyst and a Risk manager, He is currently a Deputy Director/ Head Registration, Exchanges and Market Infrastructure and Innovation Department, formerly Special Assistant to the Executive Commissioner Operations and Head, Public Offerings at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Timi was a Secondee to the US Securities and Exchange Commission in 2018. He is a ranking member of the Rules Committee and the co-sponsor of the Green Bonds regulatory framework at the SEC. Prior to joining the SEC was at various time with the University of Benin and Office of the Accountant General of the Federation. Timi is a Fellow of the IFC-Milken Institute Capital Markets Program

Timi holds honors degree in Accountancy from the Rivers State University of Science and Technology Port-Harcourt, a Master’s degree in Banking and Finance and another Master of Science degree in Economics both from the University of Benin, Benin City Nigeria. Timi is a recent graduate of the Chartered Institute of Stock brokers and currently a Phd Student in Economics at the Nile University Abuja   A certificate in Corporate Social Responsibility from the World Bank Institute and a graduate certificate in Capital Market from The George Washington University Washington DC USA, Timi is also a graduate of the International Housing Finance Program of the Wharton Business School USA, New York Institute of Finance, Core Analyst Program.  The Advanced Risk Management Certificate from the University College London and PRMIA, A graduate of Strategic Enterprise Analysis and PRINCE 2 Project Management of the SEEC, York University Toronto Canada.

 He is an Associate Member Chartered Institute of Management Accountant UK, A Chartered Global Management Accountant, Chartered member of LIFA USA, Associate Member Chartered Securities and Investment Institute, London, Associate Member Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), a Senior Fellow of the Risk Managers Association of Nigeria(riman). He represents the Nigerian SEC as a plenary member of the Regulatory Oversight Committee (ROC) of the Global Legal Entity Identifier where he also sits on the board of the global body. He has lead various initiatives at the Nigerian SEC including serving as the project Manager for the Nigerian Capital Market Master Plan( 2015-2025), A major driver of the resuscitation of the commodities  He is also knowledge disseminator serving as faculty member to various institutions.

Dave Uduanu, CFA is the Chief Executive Officer of Sigma Pensions Limited, a Nigeria based Pension Fund Manager and a member of the board of trustees of CFA Institute Research Foundation. He was a past Chairman of the Pension Fund Operators Association of Nigeria. He previously worked at Ernst & Young in Lagos and was a Director of a Life Insurance Company in Nigeria. He has held Board positions in General Insurance, Asset Management and Healthcare.

Dave holds an honors degree in Civil Engineering and a Certificate in Institutional Private Equity Investing jointly awarded by the EVCA and the Said Business School at the University of Oxford. He is a Chartered Accountant and a CFA Charterholder.

Aderonke Adetoro is the Securities Services Head for Direct Custody and Clearing (DCC) at Citibank Nigeria Limited. Citi Nigeria has offered DCC services to clients in Nigeria since 2008, supporting the investing activities of local clients and offering domestic market sub-custody services to foreign broker-dealers and global custodians.

Aderonke began her career in 2001, and for over 18 years has held positions across various functions. From managing the franchise’s balance sheet to setting up the fixed income trading desk and drafting the maiden Two-Way-Quote Guidelines to formulating solutions to clients’ foreign exchange and liquidity needs.

Aderonke holds a Master’s degree in Economics for Development (University of Oxford) and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics (University College London). She is also a holder of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation awarded by the CFA Institute. She is Vice President of the local trade group, The Association of Asset Custodians of Nigeria (AACN).

 

Paul North has over 30 years’ experience of working in the financial markets and derivatives industry. Paul joined the London International Financial
Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) in 1988, spending several years on the exchange trading floor before transferring to the exchange’s Business Development Department.

At the derivatives exchange, Paul worked in the fields of broker relations, product research and development, marketing, market automation and education. Paul was Head of Education at the exchange, before leaving in 1998 to pursue a freelance career in derivatives and financial markets training and consultancy.

Paul has extensive international experience, engaging with the world’s leading investment banks, funds, regulators, software developers, exchanges, CCPs, and commodity trading houses.

Paul originally qualified as a school teacher after leaving university in the UK. He holds a BA in history and an MSc in Banking and Finance from the University of London.

Zeal Akaraiwe currently runs Graeme Blaque Advisory, a financial advisory firm focusing on risk management using derivatives and has 20 years post graduation experience in the financial sector with work experience in Lagos, London and Lusaka.

After a year in Insurance, his banking experience started in 2000 in HR, Admin and Corporate Banking after which his treasury career started with Standard Chartered in 2004.

After joining Standard Chartered Nigeria Treasury in 2004, he moved on to work in Standard Chartered London in 2006 on the Africa Structuring desk where he focused on structuring of derivative transactions for the bank’s footprint in Africa and these transactions covered interest rate, commodity and foreign exchange derivatives. In mid 2007, he moved to act as the Head of the Sales team in Standard Chartered Zambia and then returned to Nigeria in 2008 to head Financial Markets Sales and was a key member of Standard Chartered’s Wholesale Bank management Team.

Adetoun has over 20 years’ work experience with a focus on various treasury functions including Fixed Income Securities, Assets & Liability Management, Sales, Foreign Currency Trading and Derivatives. She is the Group Head, Markets of FBNQuest Merchant Bank responsible for the Treasury, Correspondent Banking and Sales Functions of the Bank.

Prior to FBNQuest, she worked at UBA as Head of Fixed income Treasury where she was responsible for ensuring the bank meets its Primary Dealer Market Maker (PDMM) and Money market Dealer (MMD) roles in both the bonds and treasury bills trading respectively.

Wole is an award winning anchor, producer and former West Africa editor at CNBC Africa. He is the presenter of CNBC Africa’s daily markets programme Closing Bell West Africa. He was previously a Fellow responsible for Strategic Communications and Stakeholder Engagement at the Nigeria Economic Summit Group, Nigeria’s leading think-tank focused on advocacy and intervention for a more open and competitive business environment.

Wole studied at the University of Lagos, Nigeria where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Finance. This cultivated his keen interest in economics and financial markets. Prior to a foray into journalism and the media, Wole was the head of investment research at FSDH Securities, Lead Capital and Afrinvest He is also a freelance writer and has previously written/contributed to several reports published by the Economic Intelligence Unit and other local and international publications.

Wole is a highly sought after business event host and moderator of panel discussions on a wide range of business topics. He has moderated live/recorded dialogues and events including the Annual Presidential Dialogue at the Nigeria Economic Summit, the World Economic Forum on Africa, Afrexim Bank annual meetings, Intra-Africa Trade Fair and many others.

Bolaji is CEO, Chapel Hill Denham, Nigeria’s leading investment banking firm and CIO of the Nigeria Infrastructure Debt Fund. He has thirty years of experience in investment banking and mobile telecommunications. Chapel Hill Denham is one of Nigeria’s leading investment managers and the leading alternatives investment manager with funds in Infrastructure, Real Estate and SMEs.

He spent eleven years with FCMB until January 2001, where he was Executive Director at CSL Stockbrokers. Bolaji was Executive Director at FCMB Capital Markets from January 1996. Bolaji left FCMB Capital Markets in January 2001, to become co-founder of Econet Wireless Nigeria, now Airtel Nigeria. He led the capital raising and license bid auction for Econet Wireless Nigeria’s USD285 million GSM license. He was Chief Business Development and Strategy Officer and was appointed Chief Marketing Officer in October 2001.

Bolaji returned to investment banking, when he founded Chapel Hill in 2005.Bolaji is Chairman of Lafarge Africa, Vice Chairman of Endeavor Nigeria, a Director of Trustfund Pensions and of SME NG, a Nigerian impact investment platform, investing in women and youth-owned SMEs. He was appointed to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Africa Advisory Board in September 2009.

Bolaji is an Economics (Honours) graduate of the London School of Economics.

Leon started his career in the financial markets in 1980 in the Money and Capital Markets division of a local South African bank and spent over 30 years in various bank’s Treasuries, trading and operations departments. He has extensive experience in Liquidity management, Money Market, Bond Market, Derivative Markets, payment systems, industry and regulatory transformation.

Leon acquired various academic qualifications through WITS Business School in Johannesburg, the academy for Financial Markets, ACI, etc. He was also a member of various industry associations in South Africa and served as chairperson of SABTOF (South African Banking Treasury Operations Forum) for a number of years.

Leon is the founding member and Executive Director of Granite CSD, the second licensed CSD in South Africa, and was appointed as Chief Executive Officer in 2015.