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As Deputy Governor in charge of Financial System Stability (FSS), he was also a member of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) and the Bank’s board of directors. Moghalu also is a much sought-after speaker at global forums. In Geneva, he established Sogato Strategies S.A., a global strategy and risk firm.

In November 2009, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Umaru Yar’Adua (2007–2010) appointed Moghalu as deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria.

He has served on the boards of the Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM) and the Financial Institutions Training Centre, as well as the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the Alliance for Financial Inclusion in Kuala Lumpur (AFI). In a career spanning public and private service, he has served at the highest institutional levels, formulating policy on macroeconomic, social and political issues, including helping steer the country through the 2008 financial crisis.

Moghalu was the Financial System Stability Deputy Governor. He also holds an LL.B. Kingsley Bosah Chiedu Moghalu (born 1963 in Lagos, Nigeria) is Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and head of the Bank's Financial System Stability directorate, responsible for regulation of banks and financial institutions, and the development of finance programs for the CBN.

He is a former United Nations official and was Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sogato Strategies S.A., a corporate strategy and risk management consulting firm with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

Moghalu is the author of two books, Global Justice (Stanford University Press, 2008) and Rwanda's Genocide (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), as well as numerous articles on law, development, political economy and public policy in journals and newspapers around the world.

Early life

Moghalu was born to Isaac Moghalu, a Foreign Service Officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nigeria, and Vidah Moghalu, a teacher.

He received advanced executive education in macroeconomics and financial sector management, corporate governance, and global strategic leadership at the International Monetary Fund Institute, Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Business School, and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Career

In 1992, Moghalu became a member of the United Nations.

The Eastern Region announced its secession from Nigeria the following May, and Moghalu and his family lived in his hometown of Nnewi, as well as Umuahia, the capital of the short-livedRepublic of Biafra, during the civil war that lasted for two and a half years. He was UN Human Rights Officer in Cambodia, Political Affairs Officer in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and Political Advisor to the UN peacekeeping mission in Croatia.

Risk management skill and knowledge was much in demand after the global financial crisis of 2008.

For five years at the Central Bank of Nigeria from November 2009 to October 2014, Kingsley Moghalu managed the systemic risks to Nigeria’s financial system, made sure the system remained stable, and led the team that executed the controversial banking sector reforms initiated by then CBN Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.

It was a demanding and stressful time.

In the 1970s, Kingsley received his secondary school education at Eziama High School, Aba; Government College Umuahia; and Federal Government College Enugu. His early childhood was spent in Geneva, Switzerland, and Washington DC, USA where his father served on diplomatic postings. It has supported 50 underprivileged youth in rural areas with scholarships, trained over 1,000 women in Anambra, Kano and Nasarawa States of Nigeria including widows and women with disabilities, in entrepreneurial skills, and provided educational infrastructure support such as new classroom buildings, sanitary facilities and libraries to schools in disadvantaged localities in Anambra State and Abuja Federal Capital Territory.

at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in the United Kingdom, and holds an International Certificate in Risk Management from the Institute of Risk Management in London.

United Nations

Moghalu was appointed to the United Nations Secretariat by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali in May 1992, where he remained for 17 years.

Moghalu previously worked for the United Nations in political, legal and external affairs roles at duty stations in New York, Cambodia, Croatia, Rwanda, and Switzerland. Kingsley Moghalu and Maryanne Moghalu are the parents of four children.

Prof. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the Emir of Kano at the time, backed Moghalu for President as well.

He later joined the African Democratic Congress (ADC), where he contested as the party’s flag bearer, but lost in the party’s primary.

Personal Life

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