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The President has sent the name of a young and consummate Nigerian, Dr Kingsley I Obiora to the Nigerian Senate for approval to replace Dr Nnana as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria

Here is a Brief Biography of the New CBN Deputy Governor

OVERVIEW

Dr. Kingsley Obiora is an Alternate Executive Director in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC, USA. In this capacity, he is a member of the 24-Seat Executive Board, collectively responsible for conducting the daily operations of the IMF. He also assists to represent the interests of 23 African Countries, including Nigeria, at the Board. He ed the IMF through the globally-competitive “Economist Program” in 2007 and has worked on various countries in Europe, Africa, and Asia. He has done extensive work on exchange rate assessment, debt sustainability analysis, decoupling and spillovers, real sector analysis, as well as several reviews of financial sector assessments. Prior to ing the IMF, he worked at the West African Monetary Institute in Accra, Ghana and the Centre for Econometric and Allied Research, University of Ibadan.

Between October 2011 and May 2014, Dr. Obiorah simultaneously served as Technical Adviser to the Nigeria’s National Economic Management Team as well as Special Assistant to the President Jonathan’s Chief Economic Adviser. During this time, he played key roles in helping shape the country’s economic policies on several fronts, including on energy subsidies, power sector reform, measurement of job creation, architecture of development financing, diversification of the economy, oil price benchmarking in the budgetary process, regulatory framework for doing business, Port reform, and asset-based economic mapping and modeling.

Dr. Obiora contributed to the preparation of several Presidential Speeches, economic updates, reviews, talking points, and analytical notes for Presidential Retreats. He also led different teams to author several books, chronicling numerous reforms in the Nigerian Economy. In view of these accomplishments, he received a personal Letter of Commendation from President Jonathan in May 2014.

From June 2014 until July 2018, Dr. Obiorah served as Special Adviser on Economic Matters to the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). In this capacity, he contributed significantly to the overall analytical and policy work of the CBN and led the team of several Technical Aides attached to the Governors Office. His extensive international and domestic economic experiences were critical in helping the Bank understand the ramifications of, and deal with spillovers from, the external shocks emanating from the significant drop in global oil prices. He led the team that built the macroeconomic model underlying President Buhari’s Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP). Dr. Obiora has a first degree from the University of Benin and post-graduate degrees in Economics from the University of Ibadan.

Qualifications

• B.Sc (Ed) Economics and Statistics Benin 1999.
• M.Sc Economics (Distinction) Ibadan 2002.
• PhD Economics Ibadan 2007. Certifications
• Management of Central Banks—Federal Reserve Bank of New York 2016
• Financial Development, Regulation, and Growt —IMF Institute, Washington DC 2007
• Financial Programming and Policies—IMF Institute, Washington DC 2007
• Econometric Modeling and Forecasting—IMF Institute, Washington DC 2008
• Ph.D Course in Econometrics (Full Semester)—George Washington University, Washington DC, 2009
• Foundations of Macro-Financial Surveillance—IMF Institute, Washington DC 2009
• Empirical Modeling of Macroeconomic Time Series—IMF Institute, Washington DC 2009
• The Design of Growth Policy—IMF Institute, Washington DC 2010
• Data Analysis—IMF Institute, Washington DC 2011
• Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomics—IMF Institute, Washington DC 2011

Experience

• Junior Research Fellow—Centre for Econometric and Allied Research (CEAR), University of Ibadan (2003-2006).
• Economist— West African Monetary Institute, Accra GHANA (2006– 2007)
• Economist—International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington DC, USA. (2007–2016)
• Technical Adviser, National Economic Management Team, Abuja, Nigeria (2011-2014)
• Special Assistant, Chief Economic Adviser’s Office, Abuja, Nigeria (2011-2014)
• Special Adviser on Economic Matters to the CBN Governor, Abuja, Nigeria. (2014-2018)
• Alternate Executive Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington DC, USA (2018-2020).

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Oya make I Tesumole......
First time in my history making FP

I like the man
Cost na rubber stamp level for our holiness bubu

Good one

I said here that Buhari feels he is through with the South West and that's why he has made Osinbajo almost irrelevant in his istration, removing Yorubas from key financial institutions and replacing them with his own tribal personalities, the next step is to start courting the SE gradually with appointments and new projects followed by the South South.

Seeing the South East ing Operation Amotekun is creating headache for the Fulani hierarchy, they didn't see it coming. The effect of this is that the two zones (SW/SE) could relax antagonizing each other for 2023 presidency.

Part of the reason behind Amotekun is announcement of Visa on arrival for every African and we all know the Africans that are rushing to Nigeria instead of Europe which is the migrant Fulanis from CAR, Gambia, Senegal, Mali, Niger where they are minorities.

Pushing SW, SS and SE towards Unity will be the biggest undoing of Buhari to the Fulani oligarchy and the dawn is already setting.

he looks young n agile

In a sane society, his likes would be the president of the country not the cattle rearer we have in aso rock

Congratulations sir
We need more of your type in government

Not these old sets of people we've now

CBN governor - SS
Deputy CBN governor - SE

Yet nobody is shouting marginalization

Great

Nice one

Kudus obiorah more grace

The man spent good years of his life in Ibadan

Bogus CV

helinues:
CBN governor - SE
Deputy CBN governor - SE

Yet nobody is shouting marginalization

Well, they couldn't find any better elsewhere

This is a very wonderful CV. I hope his experience will bring fortunes to our economy. Buhari did well on this talents hunt

When we begin to have the right set of people occupying strategic positions in this country, it shows that we are about the to move foreward.

helinues:
CBN governor - SE
Deputy CBN governor - SE

Yet nobody is shouting marginalization

Don't mind them.

Yes he has a solid CV. Often the issue of marginalization is raised. Buhari is a Fulani man and has spent most of his life surrounded by mostly fulani's.
As President you need people who you can trust around you to take charge of key areas of your government or it will be greatly frustrated. SO I see no way he will have appointed people he has no trust in into his govt. For a man who has been called a marginalization spearhead, His appointment's has been quite decent.

He already has a good Job with IMF in US,no wonder,I hope he does not regret reg from his IMF job.

Jakpon:
In a sane society, his likes would be the president of the country not the cattle rearer we have in aso rock

Sharrap olodo !
In a sane society politicians are always the president and technocrats run the government.

HIGHESTPOPORI:
He already has a good Job with IMF in US,no wonder,I hope he does not regret reg from his IMF job.

He might regret if he's corrupt.

Obviously qualified

Jakpon:
In a sane society, his likes would be the president of the country not the cattle rearer we have in aso rock

Very few Presidents in the world are technocrats. Politics is a different beast.

helinues:
CBN governor - SE Deputy CBN governor - SE
Yet nobody is shouting marginalization

Emefiele isn't from the South East