Kingsley Moghalu

Dr. Kingsley Bosah Chiedu Moghalu (born 1963 in Lagos, Nigeria) is Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and head of the Bank's Financial System Stability directorate, responsible for regulation of banks and financial institutions, and the development of finance programs for the CBN.

He is a former United Nations official and was Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sogato Strategies S.A., a corporate strategy and risk management consulting firm with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

Moghalu is the author of two books, Global Justice (Stanford University Press, 2008) and Rwanda's Genocide (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), as well as numerous articles on law, development, political economy and public policy in journals and newspapers around the world.

Early life

Moghalu was born to Isaac Moghalu, a Foreign Service Officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nigeria, and Vidah Moghalu, a teacher. His early childhood was spent in Geneva, Switzerland, and Washington DC, USA where his father served on diplomatic postings. The family returned to Nigeria in the late 1960s.

Moghalu studied law at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and was admitted as a Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1987, after obtaining a Barrister at Law degree at the Nigerian Law School, Lagos. He worked as a corporate lawyer with Shell Petroleum Development Company (Nigeria) Ltd. and Newswatch Communications Ltd. in Lagos. Moghalu was a special correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, South, and the Africa News Service, and columnist for The Guardian, Nigeria's independent newspaper.

Higher education

In 1991 Moghalu attended graduate studies, as the Joan Gillespie Fellow, at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Medford, Massachusetts, USA, where he obtained a Master of Arts degree in 1992.

He later obtained a Ph.D. at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in the United Kingdom, and holds an International Certificate in Risk Management from the Institute of Risk Management in London.

United Nations

Moghalu was appointed to the United Nations Secretariat by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali in May 1992, where he remained for 17 years. He was UN Human Rights Officer in Cambodia, Political Affairs Officer in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and Political Advisor to the UN peacekeeping mission in Croatia. He served as Legal Advisor at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and in the World Health Organization as Director of Global Partnerships and Resource Mobilization at The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

He served as a member of the Risk Management Committee of the Global Fund, and on the Senior Management Group, which sets corporate policy and strategy for the international public-private partnership development finance institution.

Moghalu was appointed as a member of the Redesign Panel on the United Nations Internal Justice System in 2006, which undertook a comprehensive evaluation and redesign of the transparency, accountability and regulatory compliance systems within the UN as part of major management reform of the United Nations.

Post UN

The Senate of Nigeria's National Assembly confirmed the nomination of Dr. Moghalu as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria on 27 October 2009.^[1]

Sogato Strategies Group was established in the same year. He continues to be Executive Director of the Swiss-Africa Business Roundtable, a Senior Associate at the Sustainability Advisory Group in Dubai, and is a member of the Board of Directors of Opportunities Industrialization Centers International (OICI).

Personal life

Moghalu married Maryanne Ezike in 1994, and the couple live in Geneva, Switzerland, with their four children.

References

1. ^ BBC News article

External links

• Official OICI website

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