The Managing Director of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, Mr. Uche Orji has been appointed as a member of the G-7 Task Force to propose solutions that would harness private capital for public good.
A committed professional, Uche brings a wealth of global experience spanning nearly three decades in investment banking and financial services to his role as a member of the Task Force.
He joined the NSIA as the pioneer MD & CEO on 2nd October 2012 from UBS, where he was Managing Director in the New York branch of its Equities Division.
Before then, Orji had spent six years at JP Morgan Securities, London, from 2001-2006, rising from the post of Vice President to Managing Director within the Equities Division.
Orji had also worked at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, London from 1998-2001. First joining as an Associate, in time, he rose to become an Executive Director before resigning in 2001.
Hitherto, he was the Financial Controller at Diamond Bank Plc., Lagos, Nigeria and previously worked at Arthur Andersen & Co.
Under his leadership, the NSIA has become a trusted advisor to the Federal Government of Nigeria and has been instrumental to the actualization of a number of national economic transformation initiatives within the remit of its mandate.
Orji’s visionary leadership has inspired the significant strides recorded by NSIA despite its short existence and nurtured it into one of Africa’s most respected sovereign wealth funds attracting hundreds of million in foreign direct investments.
He is expected to work with other Advisory Panel Members such as Aaron Levine, Senior Financial Sector Specialist, International Finance Corporation; Adam Wolfensohn, Managing Partner, Encourage Capital; Aisha R. Pandor, Co-Founder, SweepSouth; Alderman Vincent Keaveny, Senior Alderman of the City of London; Alexandra Basirov, Global Head of Sustainable Finance for Financial Institutions Coverage, BNP Paribas; and Alicia Seiger, Managing Director, Stanford University Sustainable Finance Initiative.
Also named among the panel are Anne-Marie Chidzero, CIO, FSD Africa Investments; Audrey Choi, Chief Sustainability Officer, Morgan Stanley; Eliza Foo, Director, Impact Investing, Temasek; Elizabeth Littlefield, Head of Sustainability and Social Impact, Albright Stonebridge Group; and Eric Rice, Managing Director & Head of Impact Investing, BlackRock.
Others are Jeremy Gorelick, Strategic Advisor, Green Finance Institute; Louisa Mojela, Founder & CEO, WIPHOLD; Marcus Svedberg, Investment Strategist, AP4; Nadia Nikolova, Lead Portfolio Manager, Development Finance, Allianz Global Investors; Naoko Ishii, Director, Centre for Global Commons; Nathalie Gabala, Regional Director, West, Central, and North Africa, Mastercard Foundation; Nazmeera Moola, Deputy Managing Director and Head of South Africa Investments, Ninety One; Shami Nissan, Head of Responsible Investment, Actis; Stephanie Pfeifer, CEO, Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC); Stephen Brenninkmeijer, Chair, Supervisory Board of the European Climate Foundation & Founder, Willow Investments; Tim Macready, CIO, Brightlight Impact Advisory; Tracy Palandjian, CEO and Co-Founder, Social Finance US.
