Professor Kingsley Moghalu is the Founder and President of Sogato Strategies LLC, a global risk management and investment advisory firm that has advised multinationals, private equity, asset management and other emerging-market investors such as the Swiss bank UBS, Syngenta, Actis, Goldman Sachs, TPG Pactual, Eaton Vance, and Old Mutual (South Africa). He is also the Founder and President of the Institute for Governance and Economic Transformation (IGET), a public policy think tank.
Kingsley Moghalu served as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria from 2009 to 2014. In this critical role Kingsley supervised and led the execution of extensive reforms that stabilized a 17 trillion Naira Nigerian banking sector and improved its structure, inclusiveness, corporate governance, and risk management. Dr. Moghalu also led reforms in the payments system, including the development and introduction of the unique-identifier Bank Verification Number (BVN), that created the enabling environment for the massive growth of the Fintech industry in Nigeria. He was also a member of the central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee that brought inflation in Nigeria down from double digits to a single-digit 8 per cent by 2014.
After his five-year tenure at the CBN he was subsequently appointed Professor of Practice in International Business and Public Policy at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He taught the course Emerging Africa in the World Economy and mentored graduate students from 20 countries in North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa at the prestigious graduate school of international affairs from 2015 to 2017, and is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow in the Council on Emerging Markets Enterprises at The Fletcher School. Kingsley Moghalu was an Oxford Martin Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, for the Michaelmas Term of 2021 (October-December 2021) He recently served as Special Envoy of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) on Post-Covid Development Finance for Africa.
Professor Moghalu previously worked in the United Nations system for 17 years in international security, nation-building and diplomatic assignments at the UN Secretariat Headquarters in New York and in duty stations in Cambodia, Croatia, Rwanda, and Switzerland, rising to the rank of Director. He is the author of a number of books including Emerging Africa: How the Global Economy’s Last Frontier Can Prosper and Matter (Penguin). Professor Moghalu obtained his Doctor of Philosophy degree in International Relations at the London School of Economics, the M.A. at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, and the LL.B. degree from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He also holds the Certificate in Risk Management from the Institute of Risk Management in London, and received executive education in leading economic growth and transformation, corporate governance, and macroeconomic management from Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Business School, and the International Monetary Fund Institute.
He holds several honours and distinctions 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 degree of Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) Honoris Causa from Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University (Anambra State University) in Nigeria. Prof. Moghalu also holds the traditional title of Ifekaego of Nnewi Kingdom.
Kingsley Moghalu is the Founder of the Isaac Moghalu Foundation (IMoF), a member of the Board of Directors of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) and the Advisory Board of The Business Plan for Peace. He is married to Maryanne Moghalu and they have four children.