Bolaji Lawal

Bolaji Lawal attended Kings’ College, Lagos. He obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree from Obafemi Awolowo University, (1990), professional certification of B.L from the Nigerian Law School (1991) and a Masters of Business Administration from Oxford University, United Kingdom (2002). He has also attended several executive management and banking programs in leading institutions such as Citibank School of Banking, New York; Venture Capital Institute, Atlanta; Harvard Business School, Boston, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California and Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires (INSEAD).

Bolaji Lawal joined the Bank in 1992 as an executive trainee within the Credit Risk Management Group. In 1995, he was redeployed to the Oil & Gas Team as Relationship Officer in Lagos, and subsequently as Relationship Manager, Oil & Gas, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. From Port Harcourt, he was part of the project team that set up and thereafter managed GTBank’s first branch in Warri, Delta State between 1998 and 2000.

He has over twenty-four (24) years of broad and in-depth banking experience covering Corporate Banking, Commercial Banking, Credit Risk Management and Investment Banking.

He also worked as Relationship Manager, Institutional Banking Group in Kano State. In 2003, he was appointed Group Head, Corporate Finance, wherein he led the Bank’s core execution and advisory team that worked on several landmark debt syndications, capital markets and project finance transactions within the Nigerian Banking Sector.

Mr. Lawal is currently the Divisional Head, Digital Banking Division in the Bank.

He joined the Board of Directors on March 17, 2017.