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Matthias Chika Mordi

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Matthias Chika Mordi
Chika
Born1967
Lagos State, Nigeria
NationalityNigerian
CitizenshipNigeria, United States of America
EducationEconomics, Business admin, Public Policy, Public Communications
Alma materUniversity of Ilorin, Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School, IESE Business School, Johns Hopkins University - Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, American University Washington D.C.
OccupationCEO of National Competitiveness Council of Nigeria & Chairman of United Capital formerly (UBA Capital)[1]
Years active2013[2]- present & 2014[3]- present
OrganizationNational Competitiveness Council of Nigeria

Matthias Chika Mordi (born in 1967) is from Delta State, in Nigeria and was a refugee during Nigeria’s civil war. He is an economist by training and a banker. He is the Chief Executive Officer of National Competitiveness Council of Nigeria[4] and is the current Chairman of United Capital PLC.[5][6] He is an Honourable Senior member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria[7] and alternate president of the West African Institute of Bankers (2005-2008).

Education

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Mordi has an MBA and four Master's degrees in Public Sector Leadership and Policy, IESE Business School, Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School of Gov't, Johns Hopkins University - Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and American Univ.BSc in Economics, University of Ilorin.[8][9]

Career

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Chika is a professional banker and he had spent over two decades in various roles in the banking industry, including retail and investment banking corporate banking and venture capital. Chika was the Executive Director of Corporate and Investment Banking of Standard Trust Bank (1999-2003). On 2003, he acted as MD/CEO of Continental Trust Bank until 2005. On 2005 he moved to BA Capital until 2008. In 2010, he acted as Chief Executive Officer of Accender Africa in Washington D.C until 2013.[citation needed]

Mordi is famous for co-leading the team that turned around Standard Trust (now UBA) and built it into the largest sub-Saharan African banking group (outside South Africa) in a space of seven years. The bank moved from 12 branches, 10,000 account holders, negative equity and less than three hundred employees to a $3.2 billion dollar (Dec 31, 2007), 700 branch footprint, 12,000 employees and a presence across the continent.[citation needed]

Chika is an active participant in capital markets and he is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (Nigeria) in 1991, registered with the United Kingdom’s Financial Services Authority and has since managed and executed several landmark transactions in sub-Saharan Africa. He has served as a board director of over twenty financial institutions in Africa and the United Kingdom and several non-financial institutions.[citation needed]

In 2016, Mordi was appointed to the advisory board of Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center.[10] Chika served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Board,[11] several government committees and was a member of The Crans Montana Forum. Mordi incubated businesses in aviation, energy and communications in Sub Saharan Africa.

Philosophy

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Matthias Chika Mordi is a fiscal conservative and radical proponent of free markets, liberal democracy and is committed to reducing extreme poverty[12] and transformative development in Africa.[13][14] He believes that a country can be moved out of poverty through created prosperity and not inherited prosperity physically endowed wealth like oil, ores and mineral resources- because created prosperity sustains job rich economic growth and sustained growth leads to socio-economic outcomes over time.

References

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  1. ^ "Stocks". Bloomberg News. 25 September 2023.
  2. ^ "Nigerian Competitiveness Council Appoints Leading Investment Banker as Inaugural CEO". 17 September 2013.
  3. ^ "UBCAP Appoints Mr Chika Mordi as Chairman of the Board of Directors".
  4. ^ "National Competitiveness Council of Nigeria Home Page". Archived from the original on 2015-09-16. Retrieved 2016-05-06.
  5. ^ "United Capital PLC - Company Profile and News". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
  6. ^ "Chika Mordi – United Capital PLC". www.unitedcapitalplcgroup.com. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
  7. ^ http://www.cibng.org/
  8. ^ "Matthias C. Mordi | World Economic Forum". www.weforum.org. Archived from the original on 2016-09-27.
  9. ^ "Alumni US | Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government". alumnius.net. Retrieved 2021-03-20.
  10. ^ "Harvard Shorenstein Center appoints Mordi to advisory board | BusinessDay". businessdayonline.com. Archived from the original on 2015-01-14.
  11. ^ "Matthias C. Mordi | World Economic Forum". www.weforum.org. Archived from the original on 2016-09-27.
  12. ^ "Top Nigerian Banker Chika Mordi Launches Accender Africa to Fight Poverty".
  13. ^ "LATEST - CNBC Africa".
  14. ^ "National Competitive Council and the quest to improve Nigeria's global competitiveness ranking | Premium Times Nigeria". 19 January 2014.