Up, close and personal; Meet Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu – 2019 Presidential Aspirant.

Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu, political economist, lawyer and former United Nations official, is Professor of Practice in International Business and Public Policy at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He is the Founder of Sogato Strategies LLC, an emerging markets risk, strategy and macroeconomic advisory firm, and a Senior Adviser of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum(OMFIF). He is also a Contributory Editor of Central Banking Journal. In 2016, Moghalu founded the Institute for Governance and Economic Transformation (IGET), a think tank focused on the achievement of inclusive economic growth and effective public policy in developing countries.

Central Bank of Nigeria: Prof. Moghalu served as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria from 2009 to 2014. As Deputy Governor for Financial Stability he led the implementation of far-reaching reforms in Nigeria's banking sector after a combination of the global financial crisis, corporate governance abuses and weak risk management left one third of Nigerian banks on the edge of collapse. He also served as Deputy Governor for Operations. Moghalu was a member of the Board of Directors, the Monetary Policy Committee, and the Committee of Governors of the CBN, and was also a member of Nigeria's Economic Management Team. He also led corporate governance in a number of international and Nigerian financial institutions as a member or chair of the boards of directors of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI), International Islamic Liquidity Management Corporation (IILMC), Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Financial Institutions Training Centre (FITC), and the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON). Moghalu's tenure at the Nigerian central bank was not without controversy. He was charged with executing frequently controversial banking sector reforms spearheaded by CBN Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi in a fraught political and social milieu, and was seen by some observers as the heir apparent to succeed Sanusi as governor. Moghalu publicly articulated and defended the central bank's banking reforms, including the controversial introduction of Islamic banking as part of a menu of options to diversify access to finance. In early 2014, reacting to foreign criticism of Nigeria at the Africa CEO Forum conference in Geneva, Moghalu distanced himself from the now suspended Bank head's methods in alleging a $20 billion fraud at the country's publicly owned oil corporation. Moghalu expressed frustration that his erstwhile colleague had overstepped his role as the head of a central bank and crossed into "political activism", but emphasized his support and that of other colleagues for Sanusi's leadership in monetary policy.

Early Life: Moghalu was born in Lagos in 1963 to Isaac Moghalu, a Nigerian Foreign Service Officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Mrs. Vidah Moghalu. His father, Isaac Moghalu was posted abroad as a Nigerian diplomat in Geneva, Switzerland very shortly after his birth, and subsequently served in Washington D.C. as well. Moghalu spent his early childhood in Geneva and Washington where his family lived in the 1960s.[9] He obtained the LL.B. (Honours) degree in law at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 1986, and the B.L. (Barrister at Law) from the Nigerian Law School, Lagos.[10] After working as a corporate and media attorney in Lagos, and as a Special Correspondent for several international newspapers and magazines including The Christian Science Monitor, South, and Africa News Service, he left Nigeria in 1991 for graduate studies in the United States.

Higher Education: Moghalu obtained an M.A. degree at The Fletcher School of Law of Diplomacy at Tufts University, where he was the Joan Gillespie Fellow and Research Assistant in the International Political Economy (IPE) Program, in 1992. He later obtained a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) at the University of London, UK, and the International Certificate in Risk Management from the Institute of Risk Management (IRM) in London. He is also an alumnus of advanced executive education programs in macroeconomics and financial sector management, corporate governance, and global strategic leadership at the International Monetary Fund Institute, Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Business School, and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

[b]United Nations: [/b]Moghalu joined the United Nations in 1992. His first assignment was in Cambodia as a UN human rights and elections officer with the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC). A year later, he was appointed political affairs officer in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations at the UN Headquarters in New York. From 1996 to 1997, he served in the former Yugoslavia as political advisor to the special representative of the UN Secretary-General in Croatia. He was then assigned as legal adviser to the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania in 1997 and later promoted to the role of the international tribunal's spokesman. As special counsel and spokesman he was responsible for policy development, strategic planning and external relations. Moghalu was one of the notable personalities of the two international war crimes tribunals established by the United Nations Security Council, with a staff strength of 1000 men and women from 90 countries. The UNICTR delivered the first-ever judgement by an international court on genocide.

In 2002, Moghalu was appointed to the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland as Head of Global Partnerships and Resource Mobilization at The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), a public-private international development finance organization and social investment fund with $20 billion in assets and investments in 140 developing and middle income countries. He was a member of the Global Fund's Senior Management Group that set corporate strategy, and a member of the Fund's Risk Management Committee, and was promoted to the rank of Director in 2006.

In 2006, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed Moghalu a member of the high-level Redesign Panel on the United Nations Internal Justice System, the establishment of which was requested by a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly. The five-member Redesign Panel comprised Mary Gaudron, a former Australian supreme court judge, Louis Otis, a Canadian appeals court judge, Ahmed El-Kosheri, an Egyptian law professor and former Judge Ad Hoc of the International Court of Justice, Diego Garcia Sayan,a former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru, and Moghalu. Working at the UN Headquarters in New York for six months in the first half of 2006, the Redesign Panel reviewed and completely overhauled the accountability, transparency and dispute resolution framework that governs the global workforce of the United Nations as part of wide-ranging management reforms in the organization. This special assignment was at the nominal rank of Under-Secretary-General.

Honours: Prof. Moghalu has received several honours including the Nigerian national honour of the Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON), Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (FCIB) and the Rotary International Distinguished Service Award.

I wish people like this gets there...
Nope nope nope.... Not when tribalism and.... Make I hold my chill....
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Nothing concern me sef.
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My own na Igbo project... Nigeria should fix itself.

I have a problem about the role he played in the introduction of Sharia based banking under the influence of Sanusi and it clearly shows Mogalu is no different from most Nigerian sycophants who will see white and call it black to to safe guard their meal ticket

See CV,am humbled

But it all started from his dad who was a Foreign Service Officer, and he worked hard to excel and that he did.


I pray God starts our children's own with us ooooooo

Amen

SalamRushdie:
I have a problem about the role he played in the introduction of Sharia based banking under the influence of Sanusi and it clearly shows Mogalu is no different from most Nigerian sycophants who will see white and call it black to to safe guard their meal ticket

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If he contributed to the establishment of Islamic banking structure in Nigeria then we need to cut him some slack and not criticize him for that.

Just like some people rightly say, if U wanna hide something from a black man, then put it in a book. I am also a culprit.

I was a major critic of the Non Interest Banking/Islamic banking until I took out time to read the principles and practice of NIB.

I can assure you that presently in the country, 70% of the Customers that patronize NIB are not moslems

Impressive CV. But, didn't take steps, to be in pple's consciousness, earlier. Create familiarity, but don't derail, like Sowore

Everyday, I see posts lamenting Nigeria.

We vote people out in Nigeria, we don't vote people in (2019 people will do anything to vote out Buhari just to do anything to vote Atiku, for instance out come 2023. Smh) and this makes us forget we have a choice.

I've seen credible and smart LEADERS emerge but political, intellectual and tribal constraints keeps preventing such from thriving.

The kinds of Kingsely are men that can make Nigeria something both locally and internationally.

Please take your time and useless MB today to watch interviews of 2019 presidential candidates.



#VotePeopleInNotOut