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NEW Arunma Oteh to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Nigeria, from Business, Corporates, Financiers & Entrepreneurs
2020 2010 to 2015, during which time she rebuilt the Nigerian
Former Treasurer and Vice President
of the World Bank capital markets after the global financial crisis and served
on Nigeria’s Economic Management team.
Prior to that, she worked at the Africa Development Bank
As former treasurer and vice president of the World Bank, for 17 years, including as group vice president, corporate
Arunma Oteh oversaw the management of assets in excess services. She has sat on numerous boards during her
of $200 billion, and launched the world’s first block-chain career, most notably the International Organisation of
bond, the Bondi Bond. Securities Commissions (2010 to 2015), which regulates
This January she swapped corporate life for a radical 95 per cent of the world’s securities markets.
new career, becoming an academic scholar at St Anthony’s She has also previously served on the World Economic
College, Oxford, where she plans to pursue more Forum Agenda Council on Institutional Governance, and
research and writing. the Africa Advisory Council for World Women’s Banking.
Arunma has also taken up the role of Executive-in- She holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration
Residence at Saïd Business School, Oxford, where she will from Harvard Business School and a First Class
engage in student-facing and advisory work as well as help Honours Bachelor of Science Degree from the University
with future strategy. The school recently announced an of Nigeria Nsukka.
Oxford-Adara Foundation Scholarship programme to fund In 2011, in recognition of her contribution to economic
a full scholarship for an exceptional female MBA candidate development and transforming the Nigerian capital
from Africa for three years. markets, she was awarded the Officer of the Order of the
Before joining the bank, she served as director general Niger (OON).

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