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Special Advisor, The Presidency - Nigeria on Ease of Doing Business

Jumoke Oduwole MFR is Special Adviser to the President of Nigeria on Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) and Investment, and oversees policies aimed at improving Nigeria’s business and investment climate through collaboration with stakeholders across all arms and levels of government and the private sector. Since 2016, she and her team have delivered over 180 reforms, and she was instrumental in the conceptualization and formation of the Nigerian Office for Trade Negotiations (NOTN). She has also served on various specialized reform committees of the federal government, including the AfCFTA implementation Committee and the Tax Policy Reform Committee, and Chaired the Technical Working Group on Legislative Imperatives for the implementation of Nigeria’s National Development Plan 2021-2025. Dr Oduwole is on loan from Faculty of Law, University of Lagos, and has worked in investment banking and the non-governmental space in Nigeria. She was holder of the Prince Claus Chair in Development and Equity in The Hague from 2013 to 2015, is a Trustee of the Mandela Institute for Development Studies (MINDS), South Africa, and was invited in 2022 to serve as a Governance Advisor to the MIT GOV/LAB Governance Innovation Initiative. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government. Jumoke has an LL.B from University of Lagos, Nigeria, an LL.M from Cambridge University UK as well as a second Masters degree and doctorate degree from Stanford Law School USA. She was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1999. Jumoke enjoys street photography and is passionate about nation building and economic development in Africa.