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Arunma Oteh

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Arunma Oteh

Academic Scholar, Oxford University; former Vice President and Treasurer, World Bank
Arunma Oteh

Ms. Arunma Oteh has been an Academic Scholar, University of Oxford, since January 2019. Her research areas of focus are capital markets, economic development and financial technology. She is also a member of the London Stock Exchange Africa Advisory Group. She was previously Treasurer and Vice President of the World Bank, Director General, Securities and Exchange Commission Nigeria, Group Vice President and Group Treasurer, African Development Bank Group. She started her career in 1985, at Centre Point Investments Limited, Nigeria. Ms. Oteh holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSc, First Class Honors from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Ms Oteh has also served on several boards and received several awards notably Nigeria’s Officer of the Order of Niger (OON) National Honour. In 2018, she was honored as the Ai Global Institutional Investment Personality of the Year. She Is one of PowerList’s 2020 top 100 people of Black Heritage in the U.K. and was named one of Africa’s 50 most influential African women by Forbes Africa in March 2020.