Background
Festus was born on April 14, 1944 in Idanre, Nigeria.
Festus was born on April 14, 1944 in Idanre, Nigeria.
B.A (Humanities, Part 1, University of London).
B.Sc (Hons Economics, University Of London).
M.Sc (Economics, University Of Ibadan, Nigeria).
D.Phil (Economics, University Of Oxford Balliol College).
Festus worked as an economist at the IMF. Including as a team member for Economic Reform Programmes, Formulation for a wide range of countries such as Brazil, Ecuador, Guinea (Conakry), Morocco, Mali, Philipines, Portugal Former Yugoslavia, Thailand, and Vietnam. Senior Resident Representative of the IMF successively in three African countries: Liberia, Tanzania, and Kenya. On secondment from the IMF staff, I worked as the Macro-economic Adviser to the Nigerian Federal Government, also heading a new secretariat, Located at the presidency; In that capacity, I was the Team Leader for the technical team that prepared Nigeria`s first Interim, Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (IPRSP). Post-retirement from the IMF staff, I have been operating as an Independent Consultant on international finance and private banking Issues. More recently, I have also been working on my own as Founder and Chief Economist of an NGO by the name Common Interest Matter (CIM) Centre based in Lagos, Nigeria. Foreign language competence: French (Near Fluent), Portuguese, Spanish (working level).