WHO’S WHO IN CORPORATE NIGERIA: GODWIN EMEFIELE
WHO’S WHO IN CORPORATE NIGERIA
GODWIN EMEFIELE
NAME: Godwin Emefiele
CURRENT POSITION: Group CEO, Zenith Bank; Governor Designate, Central Bank of Nigeria
PAST POSITIONS: Deputy CEO, Zenith Bank; Executive Director, Zenith Bank
START OF CAREER: Lecturer, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, later University of Port Harcourt
NIGERIA EDUCATION: Bsc Finance (UNN) 1984, MBA (UNN) 1986
FOREIGN EDUCATION: Executive courses in Wharton Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Harvard University
JARUSHUB ONE-LINE DESCRIPTION: The conservative banker who may return Nigeria’s Central Bank leadership to traditional conservativeness.
JARUSHUB REMARKS
He finished from same school, in same year, with Professor Charles Soludo, erstwhile CBN boss. Soludo studied economics (and finished as best graduating student in UNN for the year), Emefiele studied Finance.
He has been with Zenith Bank since inception in 1991.
He started his career as a lecturer. His predecessor, Lamido Sanusi, also started his career as an economics lecturer in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
His CV appears to buttress the known fact that many Nigerian executives apply for courses in top global schools like Harvard, Stanford, Wharton etc after they are made.
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