Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede


Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede FCIB, CON is a Nigerian banker and the Founder/Chairman of Coronation Capital Limited and its affiliates, Coronation Asset Management Ltd and Trium Ltd. He founded Africa Initiative for Governance in 2014.. He is the Co-Chairman of the United Kingdom-Nigeria Capital Market Task Force and a board member of TCX Investment Management Company Netherlands. He is also Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Financial Market Dealers Association.

Early life

Aig-Imoukhuede was born on 24 September 1966 in Ibadan, Oyo State in Western Nigeria to parents who were in the civil service. He hails from Sabongida-Ora, Edo State in Southern Nigeria. He lived with his family in Lagos but went to Federal Government College Kaduna, Northern Nigeria. He earlier attended St. Saviours School in Lagos and at aged 16, he enrolled to study law at University of Benin, Edo State, Nigeria. He graduated with a LLB degree in 1986 at age 19 and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1987. He holds a Trium MBA, awarded jointly by the London School of Economics, New York University, and HEC Paris. In 2000, he attended a three-month Executive Management Programme course at Harvard Business School.

Career

He began working as a lawyer with Continental Merchant Bank during his NYSC year in 1988. He had a 2 year stint in Prime Merchant Bank before joining Guaranty Trust Bank PLC in December 1991 where he resigned as Executive Director in March 2002.
Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede was the leader of the 2002 acquisition of Access Bank, then a fringe regional player. He was the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Bank till December 2013. He retired as President of the Nigerian Stock Exchange in 2017. He was a Non Executive Director of Africa Finance Corporation since 2008 until June 2, 2017. He founded Coronation Merchant Bank in 2015 and has led the growth and expansion of the Coronation ecosystem. He serves as a Director of Petralon Energy and retired as the Chairman of Wapic Insurance Plc in April 2020 Aig-Imoukhuede was the founding Chairman of FMDQ OTC PLC until August 1, 2014.

Achievements and awards

He was conferred with Commander of the Order of the Niger in 2011 by then President Goodluck Jonathan of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, for his contributions to the development of banking and finance. He was also awarded the National Productivity Order of Merit Award in 2009. In 2011, he was inaugurated into the Ernst and Young World Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame as the Ernst & Young West Africa Entrepreneur of the Year, as well as awarded African Banker Magazine's “African Banker of the Year” in 2013.
He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was appointed a member of the International Advisory Board of Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government.
He is a fellow of the African Leadership Institute affiliated with Aspen Institute in Colorado, USA. He is also honorary fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria.
In 2018, he was awarded the Honorary Doctor of Science by the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Nigeria.

Philanthropy

He is the Founder and Chairman of Africa Initiative for Governance, an independent non-profit that promotes good governance in Africa. AIG partners with Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government for the AIG Scholarships that send qualified Africans to the Oxford for a Master of Public Policy degree and AIG Fellowships for senior civil servants. AIG also supports the ongoing Civil Service transformation efforts with financial and technical assistance.
Aig-Imoukhuede is the first African Co-Chairman of the Global Business Coalition on Health. In 2011, he made a $1 million contribution to the Global Fund. He is currently the Chairman of ABCHealth, a regional non-profit established by Aliko Dangote Foundation and GBCHealth.
He is also a director of the Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria. In 2019, Aigboje initiated the Adopt-A-Healthcare-Facility Programme to provide a chain of Primary Healthcare Centers, across Nigeria’s 774 Local Government Areas and apply market-based reforms to provide low-cost health services at decent standards to the poor and vulnerable.
He is also the Vice Chairman of Global Citizen Nigeria and through a partnership with the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Fund, he is driving the creation of the Nigerian Solidarity Support Fund which  targets to raise $50 million to support vulnerable populations, build health systems resilience and re-skill the Nigerian health workforce in a Post-COVID era.

Personal life

Aigboje is married to Ofovwe Aig-Imoukhuede and they have four children together; Zoje, Aima, Renuan and Morenike.