Rotimi Nihinlola

Dr. Rotimi Nihinlola is a financial inclusion and poverty expert whose vision is for us to have a world that is inclusive financially and socio-economically and poverty-free.

A senior pan-African banker with over 25 years banking experience, spanning all customer segments, but has devoted half of his career to the focus of banking the unbanked. For over 10 years has been managing a leading and award-winning pan-African microfinance and financial inclusion operation that serves millions of previously unbanked customers across many African countries. With the ambition of reaching 100 million unbanked low income Africans in the medium term he led implementation of a large scale fully digital micro savings and lending services in several markets in partnership with leading Mobile Phone Operators and financial technology firms. In general spheres of banking he played senior roles at various times supervising teams across 40 countries in Africa, Paris, London, Dubai and China, as COO of Corporate and Retail Bank, Group CFO, director of boards, among others.

A chartered accountant, Dr. Nihinlola completed a BSc in Accounting as scholar of elf-Petroleum (TOTAL), and holds MSc Economics (The University of Sheffield, England) and PhD in Human & Social Services focused on financial inclusion and poverty (Walden University, USA). An alumnus of HBS-ACCION microfinance leadership program of Harvard Business School, Dr. Nihinlola is also an author of an Amazon #1 best seller new release book – A Poverty-free World: from Dream to Reality – in various categories including social security, social services and welfare, agriculture & food policy.