Arunma Oteh: ‘A Lot of Innovations That Are Very Important to Society Have Come Out of Development Banks’

Hi, and welcome to The Long View. I’m Dan Lefkovitz, strategist for Morningstar Indexes. Our guest this week is Arunma Oteh, currently of the University of Oxford Saïd Business School. Arunma is a former treasurer of the World Bank and also served in various leadership roles in the African Development Bank. In 2010, she became Director General of Nigeria Securities and Exchange Commission, and she led that apex regulator for several years following the global financial crisis. She writes about the experience in the recently published book All Hands on Deck: Unleash Prosperity Through World Class Capital Markets. Arunma is a graduate of the University of Nigeria, UNN Nsukka, and Harvard Business School.Background Bio All Hands on Deck: Unleash Prosperity Through World Class Capital MarketsNigeria’s “Iron Lady” “Nigeria’s Iron Lady Takes on Fraudsters,” by Caroline Duffield, bbc.com, July 1, 2010. “Changing the World One Bond at a Time,” Rita Stankeviciute and Kathleen Manahan, worldbank.org, July 18, 2018. “Nigeria SEC Boss, Arunma Oteh, Fights Back,” YouTube video, March 15, 2012.Other Securities and Exchange Commission, Nigeria Nigerian Exchange Group NGX FMDQ Group “A Tale of 2 Exchanges: As FMDQ Thrives NGX Plays Catch Up,” by Bala Augie, moneycentral.com, Oct. 2, 2021.