Arunma Oteh

Biography

Ms. Arunma Oteh OON has been an Academic Scholar at University of Oxford, since January 2019. Her research areas of focus are capital markets, economic development, financial technology and sustainability. She is also a member of the London Stock Exchange Africa Advisory Group. She was previously Treasurer 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(1990) and a BSc, First Class Honors from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka(1984). Ms Oteh has also served on several boards and has received several awards notably Nigeria’s Officer of the Order of Niger (OON) National Honour. She is one of Power List’s 2020 top 100 people of Black Heritage in the UK and was named one of Africa’s 50 most influential African women by Forbes Africa in March 2020.