Mr. Emmanuel IKAZOBOH

Mr. Emmanuel IKAZOBOH has more than 30 years’ experience in senior management roles, executing high profile advisory assignments for public and private sector clients in Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon and South Africa. Mr. Emmanuel IKAZOBOH spent most of his career with Deloitte and Touche, holding the position of Chairman and CEO of Deloitte West and Central Africa between 2007 and 2009.
From 2010 to 2011, he served as Interim Administrator of the Nigerian Stock Exchange. He was appointed by Nigeria’s Securities & Exchange Commission to restructure the stock exchange, equities market, stockbrokerage and corporate governance processes to meet with best practice and put in place a new management team. As Chairman of Nigeria’s Central Securities Clearing System, Emmanuel led its restructuring and transformation to conform to global standards.

He is currently the only African board representative of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) in Canada and serves as the Chairman of Audit and Risk Committee.
Emmanuel is a UK Certified Accountant and a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants, the Institute of Chartered Accountants Nigeria and the Nigeria Institute of Taxation. He holds an MBA in Financial Management and Marketing from Manchester University’s Business School. He was also one of the top CEOs seconded to the Kellogg Senior Management School, Northwestern University Chicago, USA.