Profile<\/p>\n
Arunma Oteh served as Vice President and Treasurer at the World Bank from September 30th, 2015, to November 30th, 2018. In this role, she led a team responsible for managing assets totaling USD 200 billion for the World Bank Group, 60 central banks, sovereign wealth funds, and other official institutions.<\/p>\n
Under her leadership, the team maintained the World Bank’s global reputation as a prudent and innovative borrower in over 50 currencies by executing well-prepared transactions and carefully coordinating credit rating and capital market relationships for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA).<\/p>\n
Before her tenure at the World Bank, Oteh served as Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nigeria from 2010 to 2015. During this period, she played a pivotal role in rebuilding the Nigerian capital markets after the global financial crisis and was a member of Nigeria’s Economic Management team. Before her position at SEC Nigeria, she held various roles at the African Development Bank for 17 years, including Group Vice President, Corporate Services (2006 to 2009) and Group Treasurer (2001 to 2006).<\/p>\n
Oteh’s career began at Centre Point Investments Limited, Nigeria in 1985. Throughout her 33-year career, she has served on several Boards, notably the International Organization of Securities Commissions (2010 to 2015), which regulates 95% of the world’s securities markets, and the pioneer Board of the International Financing Facility for Immunization (2006 to 2011).<\/p>\n
She has also been involved in the World Economic Forum Agenda Council on Institutional Governance and the Africa Advisory Council for World Women’s Banking.<\/p>\n
Oteh holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a First-Class Honors Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Nigeria Nsukka.<\/p>\n
Best way to her skills: Arunma’s expertise in corporate finance, capital markets, and investments is invaluable for initiatives involving financial management, investment strategies, and regulatory compliance in both public and private sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3082,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"rwsectors":[358],"class_list":["post-3150","rwexperts","type-rwexperts","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rwsectors-business-and-economy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rwexperts\/3150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rwexperts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rwexperts"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rwexperts\/3150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3258,"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rwexperts\/3150\/revisions\/3258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"rwsectors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reportwomen.org\/experts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rwsectors?post=3150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}