Arunma Oteh

Member, Global Leadership Council, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

1984, degree (Hons) in Computer Science, Univ. of Nigeria, Nsukka; 1990, MBA, Harvard Business School. Currently Academic Scholar at St. Antony's College, and Executive In Residence at SAID Business School. World Bank Treasurer (2015 to 2018), Director General, Securities and Exchange Commission, Nigeria (2010 to 2015), African Development Bank Group Corporate Services Vice President (2006 to 2009), and Group Treasurer (2001 to 2006). Her career started at Centre Point Investments Limited, Nigeria in 1985. Ms. Oteh also served on several Boards, notably, the International Organization of Securities Commissions (2010 to 2015), which regulates 95% of the world’s securities markets and the pioneer Board of the International Financing Facility for Immunization (2006 to 2011). She has also served on the Board of the Nigerian Pension Commission, and was previously a member of the World Economic Forum Agenda Council on Institutional Governance, and the Africa Advisory Council for World Women’s Banking. In 2011, in recognition of her contribution to the economic development of Nigeria and role in transforming the Nigerian capital markets, she was awarded the Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON) National Honor. In 2014, she was named the Africa Investor Capital Market Personality of the Year, among New African’s “100 Most Influential Africans of 2015”. In 2016, she received the New African Woman Award in Finance and Banking and in 2018, she was honored as the Ai Global Institutional Investment Personality of the Year.

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