Kingsley Moghalu

Kingsley Moghalu is a transformational leader who has led organizations, boards and teams to outstanding success across global, continental and national platforms and across sectors. His expertise spans geopolitics, economic policy and finance strategies for prosperity creation, international higher education, public policy and governance, and international trade. He has advised governments, business corporations and international organizations on navigating complex challenges and seizing emerging opportunities. He is recognized as an interdisciplinary scholar, thought leader, distinguished public speaker and author, combining intellectual gravitas with a strong executive leadership track record and contributing significantly to the advancement of global discourse on economic and governance issues.

Kingsley was the inaugural President of the African School of Governance (ASG), a pan-African graduateschool university of public policy founded by a group of African heads of state and government and located in Kigali, Rwanda. He established the school’s management and academic operations, brand-positioning it on the continent and globally, within a record period of 9 months as head of ASG. Prior, Kingsley was Professor of Practice in International Business and Public Policy and Distinguished Fellow at the Council on Emerging Market Enterprises at The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University. He earlier served for a term of five years from 2009 to 2014 as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, where he led the execution of far-reaching banking sector and payment system reforms, and was a member of the Bank’s Board of Directors and its Monetary Policy Committee. He also served as a member of the President of Nigeria’s Economic Management Team.

As Head of Global Partnerships and Resource Mobilization for the $20 billion-asset Global Fund in Geneva, Switzerland, Kingsley played a key role in mobilizing billions of dollars in resources for social investments in public health across Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean, and structured partnerships that brought business corporations, governments and civil society entities together to confront global pandemics such as HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria. Earlier, he was a Political Affairs, Legal, and External Affairs Advisor in the United Nations Secretariat at duty stations at UN Headquarters in New York, Cambodia, Croatia, and Tanzania/Rwanda.

Kingsley is a member of the Governing Council of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), an independent network of global asset management firms, central banks, sovereign wealth and pension funds headquartered in London and with $43 trillion in assets. He is the Founder of Sogato Strategies, a geopolitical risk and investment advisory firm that has advised some of the world’s largest institutional investors investing in emerging markets, and is also the Founder of IGET Academy, a public policy think tank and executive education academy for leaders and business executives operating in emerging markets.

He obtained his Ph.D. in International Relations at the London School of Economics (LSE), the M.A. at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, and the LL.B. degree at University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Kingsley received executive education at Wharton School of Business, Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School, IMD in Switzerland, and Chicago Booth School of Business. He is the author of several books including the critically acclaimed Emerging Africa: How the Global Economy’s Last Frontier Can Prosper and Matter and has been a frequent guest commentator on CNN Television, BBC World TV, Financial Times, USA Today, South China Morning Post, and Washington Post.

A legal permanent resident of the United States resident in Washington DC, Kingsley Moghalu was born in 1963 to Isaac Moghalu (now deceased), then a Nigerian Foreign Service Officer who served in Geneva and Washington DC in the 1960s, and Lady Vidah Moghalu, a retired dietician, an evangelist, and a U.S. citizen.