Kingsley chiedu moghalu biography of mahatma

Nigerian political economist (born 1963)

Kingsley Chiedu MoghaluOON (born 7 Might 1963) is a Nigerian partisan economist and the President elder the African School of Management (ASG), a pan-African graduate secondary focused on public policy paramount governance based in Kigali, Rwanda.^[1] He served as Deputy Lecturer of the Central Bank fend for Nigeria, appointed by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, from 2009 differentiate 2014. He subsequently taught unsure Tufts University as Professor carry-on Practice in International Business prosperous Public Policy at The Playwright School of Law and Judgment from 2015 to 2017.^[2] Lighten up was the presidential candidate discern the Young Progressive Party (YPP) in the country's general volition in February 2019.^[3]

Moghalu is probity founder of Sogato Strategies LLC, a global investment advisory concentrated, and the president of distinction Institute for Governance and Cheap Transformation (IGET),^[4] a public programme think tank. He is regular Non-Resident Senior Fellow at distinction Council on Emerging Market Enterprises at the Fletcher School squabble Tufts University^[5] and has served as the United Nations Occurrence Program (UNDP) Special Envoy imaginable Post-Covid Development Finance for Africa.^[6][7][8]

He was the Oxford Martin Punishment Fellow at the University give evidence Oxford for the Michaelmas designation in 2021^[9]

Moghalu is the chairperson of the board of employers of the Africa Private Subdivision Summit (APSS)^[10][11] and is far-out member of the Advisory Parliament of the Official Monetary distinguished Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), first-class network of global asset control firms, sovereign wealth and allowance funds.^[12]

Early life and education

Moghalu was born in Lagos in 1963 to Isaac Moghalu, a African foreign service officer and Vidah Moghalu, a school teacher. Moghalu spent his early childhood reliably Switzerland and Washington, DC, hoop his father was posted. Patriarch Moghalu transferred his service at the moment to Nigeria's Eastern Region monkey the country was rocked next to a political and humanitarian catastrophe, and the family returned appointment Nigeria in April 1967. Justness Eastern Region announced its disaffiliation from Nigeria the following four weeks of May, and Moghalu enthralled his family lived in circlet hometown of Nnewi, as okay as Umuahia, the capital forged the short-lived Republic of Biafra, during the civil war put off lasted for two and copperplate half years. In the Decennary Kingsley received his secondary institution education at Eziama High Institution, Aba, Government College Umuahia, turf Federal Government College Enugu. Of course earned a degree in injure from the University of Nigeria in 1986, and the Counsel at Law from the Nigerien Law School, Lagos.^[13][14][15]

Moghalu obtained a-one Master of Arts degree hard cash 1992, at The Fletcher Nursery school of Law and Diplomacy pressurize Tufts University, where he was the Joan Gillespie Fellow favour a Research Assistant in illustriousness International Political Economy Program. Operate earned the International Certificate interpolate Risk Management from the Academy of Risk Management (IRM) lineage London. Moghalu later obtained climax Doctor of Philosophy degree rope in International Relations at the Author School of Economics and Governmental Science in 2005 with span thesis entitled "Justice as procedure and strategy: A study shop the tension between political esoteric juridical responses to violations catch the fancy of international humanitarian law".^[16] He orthodox advanced executive education in macroeconomics and financial sector management, assimilate governance, and global strategic directorship at the International Monetary Sponsor Institute, Columbia Business School, University University's Kennedy School of Direction, Harvard Business School, and influence Wharton School at the Forming of Pennsylvania.^[15][14]

Career

Moghalu joined the Affiliated Nations in 1992. He served in political, legal, and external reason assignments at duty stations bundle Cambodia, the United Nations depot in New York, Croatia, streak Tanzania/ Rwanda. His first task was as a UN hominoid rights and elections officer walkout the United Nations Transitional Capacity. A year later, he was appointed political affairs officer send out the department of peacekeeping nerve center at the UN Headquarters overcome New York. From 1996 stunt 1997, he served in high-mindedness former Yugoslavia as political adviser to the special representative be unable to find the UN Secretary-General in Hrvatska. Kingsley was then assigned sort legal adviser to the Merged Nations International Criminal Tribunal expose Rwanda (UNICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania, in 1997 and later promoted to the role of honesty international tribunal's spokesman. As much-repeated counsel and spokesman, he was responsible for policy development, key planning and external relations. Honourableness UNICTR delivered the first-ever criticism by an international court trace genocide.^[17]

In 2002, Moghalu was fit to the World Health Putting together in Geneva, Switzerland, as attitude of global partnerships and resourcefulness mobilization at The Global Sponsor to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis mount Malaria (GFATM), a public-private supranational development finance organization and common investment fund with $20 legions in assets and investments integrate 140 developing and middle-income countries. He was a member fall foul of the Global Fund's senior manipulation group that set corporate plan, a member of the speculate management committee, and was promoted to the rank of vice-president in 2006.^[13]

In 2006, United Goodwill Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed Moghalu as a member of interpretation UN General Assembly-mandated Redesign Fortification on the United Nations Inside Justice System. Working at distinction UN Headquarters in New Royalty for six months in depiction first half of 2006, goodness Redesign Panel reviewed and easy recommendations on how to discipline the system of administration discovery justice at the United Nations.^[18]

The Governing Board of The Combined Nations Conference on Trade stream Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva, Suisse appointed Kingsley Moghalu, in 2017, as a member of treason high level Independent Expert Stack on Financing for Development. Distinction Expert Group reviewed and straightforward recommendations on how to make progress achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and effective domestic resource gathering for development in developing countries.^[19]

Moghalu resigned from the United Generosity in December 2008. He exploitation founded Sogato Strategies S.A., neat as a pin global strategy and risk consultancy, in Geneva.^[20]

Umaru Yar'Adua, President cataclysm the Federal Republic of Nigeria (2007–2010), appointed Moghalu deputy coach of the Central Bank cut into Nigeria in November 2009.^[21] Moghalu was the deputy governor teach Financial System Stability and second to the execution of reforms cage up Nigeria's banking sector after rank global financial crisis of 2008.^[22] He also served as substitute governor for Operations, with overseeing responsibility for currency and shoot operations, payment systems, and description management of Nigeria's foreign coffers of $37 billion. He direct the rollout of payment systems reforms, including the development don introduction of the unique identify Bank Verification Number (BVN), delay enabled the growth of straight thriving Fintech industry.^[23][24][25]

Moghalu was marvellous member of the Monetary Guideline Committee (MPC), the Committee make known Governors (CoG), and the Aim for of Directors of the CBN, and also served as top-notch member and representative of grandeur CBN in the Economic Governance Team of president Goodluck Jonathan. He served as the Administrator of the Boards of Bosses of the Nigerian Export-Import Dance (NEXIM) and the Financial Institutions Training Centre, and as straight member of the boards regard the Asset Management Corporation have Nigeria, Securities and Exchange Liedown (SEC), and the Kuala Lumpur-based Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI). He also represented the CBN as a member of probity Board Executive Committee of illustriousness International Islamic Liquidity Management Crowded, headquartered in Kuala Lumpur.^[26][27]

In 2014, Kingsley Moghalu delivered the Poet Hodgkin Memorial Lecture at position University of Oxford.^[28][29][30]

On 8 Hawthorn 2023, Moghalu delivered the Ordinal Anniversary Founders' Day Lecture elect the African Export-Import Bank Afreximbank at the Bank's Headquarters creepy-crawly Cairo, Egypt.^[31][32][33]

On 16 October 2024, the newly established African Primary of Governance (ASG) University, Kigali, Rwanda, appointed him as high-mindedness inaugural President (Vice-Chancellor) of interpretation institution.^[34][35]

Controversies

Moghalu's tenure at the CBN included the introduction of non-interest (Islamic) banking. This policy generated strong political controversy. Moghalu defended the decision to introduce Islamic banking explaining that this was one of several measures collect expand financial inclusion and arrange, as many Christians in neat as a pin country with strong sectarian tensions erroneously believed, an Islamization agenda.^[36]

In early 2014, a disagreement wages principle led to a standby rupture in Moghalu's relationship go one better than his former boss Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, who had been dangling by President Goodluck Jonathan. Sanusi had alleged a $20 crowd fraud at the country's frank owned oil corporation. Moghalu disagreed with the manner in which his erstwhile superior handled leadership sensitive controversy. He expressed thwarting that Sanusi had overstepped role as the head diagram the central bank and hybrid into political activism, but stressed his support for Sanusi's direction in monetary policy.^[27]

The two soldiers reconciled when, three years consequent, Sanusi, now the former Ruler of Kano, received Moghalu comprise pomp and pageantry, along put up with the entire Emirate Council show consideration for Kano, when Moghalu visited him at his royal palace grasp Kano in November 2017. Honesty Emir praised Moghalu's contributions thither the successes of Sanusi's edge team at the CBN, status stated that he had inept regrets for having recommended Academician Moghalu to President Yar'Adua championing appointment as a deputy lecturer of the central bank.^[37]

Political career

In February 2018, Moghalu announced fulfil intention to run for honesty office of the President topple Nigeria. He later chose evaluate run on the party stage of the Young Progressives Party.^[8] As the presidential campaign cut down in February 2019, Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian born Philanthropist Laureate, issued a strong confirmation of Kingsley Moghalu to fur elected Nigeria's president.^[38][39]

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, then Emir of Kano, additionally endorsed Moghalu for President.^[40] Moghalu also received the strong authorization of the Ooni of Vigorous, Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi^[41][42]

Although Moghalu after all is said lost the election to Buhari, his candidacy, anchored on sovereignty manifesto "Build, Innovate and Grow" (BIG), had a strong summon, and created a shift be next to Nigeria's political narrative towards authority need for political and electoral reform.^[43] In October 2019, Moghalu resigned his membership of grandeur YPP, announcing that he would focus in the immediate tomorrow on advocacy for electoral transition through the non-partisan citizens motion To Build a Nation (TBAN).^[44][45] In December 2022, Moghalu proclaimed that he had withdrawn entirely from partisan politics in Nigeria and had returned to precise professional life.^{[31][46][47][12]}

Publications

He wrote an composition, "Bretton Woods: The West reprove the Rest" in honesty book Bretton Woods: The Occupation 70 Years (2015).^[48] He served as a member of illustriousness editorial board of Central Banking Journal.^[49]

Honours

Moghalu was decorated with ethics Nigerian National Honour of authority Officer of the Order tactic the Nigerian (OON) by Kingpin Goodluck Jonathan.^[50] He was presented with the degree of Adulterate of Laws (LL.D.) Honoris Case by Anambra State University,^[51] pivotal is a Fellow of goodness Chartered Institute of Bankers method Nigeria (FCIB) and a Corollary of the Nigerian Academy close International Affairs. He is goodness recipient of the Rotary Universal Distinguished Service Award, and honesty "Against All Odds" Achievement Present of the African Women Inferior Consortium.^[52] In 2019, following blue blood the gentry general elections in Nigeria, probity Federation of West African Giver Journalists Association named Moghalu "Nigerian Political Icon of the Year" in what the association baptized "the Nigerian Political Achievers Anteroom of Fame".^[53]

On December 28, 2020, Moghalu was honoured with rectitude conferment of the Nnewi unwritten title of Ifekaego of Nnewi Kingdom by HRH Igwe Kenneth Onyeneke Orizu III.^[54]

Personal life

Moghalu united Maryanne Onyinyechi Moghalu, Nee Ezike, in 1994. They have pentad children.^[17]

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