Africa Initiative for Governance and the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford invite you to participate in an invitation-only virtual discussion with Professor Sir Paul Collier, Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan, Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, Dr Ceyla Pazarbasioglu and moderated by Professor Ngaire Woods.

This event will be livestreamed online using Zoom.

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Speakers

Professor Sir Paul Collier is a Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government. His research covers the causes and consequences of civil war; the effects of aid and the problems of democracy in low-income and natural resources rich societies; urbanisation in low-income countries; private investment in African infrastructure and changing organisational cultures. From 1998-2003 Professor Collier took a five year Public Service leave during which he was Director of the Research Development Department of the World Bank. His recent books include The Bottom Billion (2007) and Exodus: How migration is changing our world (Oxford University Press, 2013). His latest book is The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties (2018). In 2014, he received a knighthood for services to promoting research and policy change in Africa.

Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan is Head of the Civil Service of the Federation. Before her appointment, she served as Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministries of Information, Education and Petroleum Resources, as well as the Career Management and Service Policy and Strategy offices in the office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation at different periods. She has also served as Director on the Boards of the Nigeria LNG and Bonny Gas Transport Ltd. During her tenure as director on the NLNG Board, she was part of the team that midwifed the Final Investment Decision (FID) of the train 7 project. Dr. Yemi-Esan is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (CIPM) and has received many accolades and recognitions within and outside the public service.

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede is the Founder and Chairman of Africa Initiative for Governance (AIG), a not-for-profit organisation, established to be a catalyst for high public sector performance in Africa by bringing proven private sector innovation, leadership and funding to the public sector in a private-public partnership to attract, inspire and support future leaders of Africa’s public sector. Mr Aig-Imoukhuede is also the Founder and Chairman of Coronation Capital, prior to which he was Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Access Bank Plc. where he led the transformation of the bank to rank amongst Africa’s leading banks. His career in banking and finance spans three decades and has earned him national as well as international recognition including Commander of the Order of the Niger 'CON', conferred by the Federal Republic of Nigeria, for his contributions to the development of banking and finance.

Dr Ceyla Pazarbasioglu is Vice President for Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions (EFI) at the World Bank Group (WBG). She oversees a portfolio of nearly $30 billion of operational and policy work and advisory engagements in the WBG Global Practices of Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation; Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment; Governance; and Poverty and Equity. Previously she was Deputy Director in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in charge of the work on financial sector regulation and supervision and crisis management. Before joining the IMF, she was Vice President of the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency of Turkey, a post she was appointed to after Turkey’s major banking crisis of February 2001. Prior to that, she worked as Chief Economist of Emerging European Markets at ABN AMRO Investment Bank in London.

Professor Ngaire Woods is the founding Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government and Professor of Global Economic Governance at Oxford University. Her research focuses on how to enhance the governance of organisations, the challenges of globalisation, global development, and the role of international institutions and global economic governance. Professor Woods serves as a member of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s Investment Advisory Panel, and on the Boards of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation and the Stephen A. Schwarzman Education Foundation. She is an Independent Non-Executive Director at Rio Tinto (effective September 2020). She sits on the advisory boards of the Centre for Global Development, the African Leadership Institute, the School of Management and Public policy at Tsinghua University, and the Nelson Mandela School of Public Policy at Cape Town University.