Team Details

Dr Steve Olusegun Ogidan founded Successory Nigeria Limited and has led it for more than 24 years. He is a development strategist and institutional capacity builder whose work spans public sector governance, institutional reform, agricultural finance, microfinance and MSME development, with assignments for the World Bank, AfDB, IFAD, UNDP, FAO, GIZ and many arms of the Federal Government of Nigeria.

He led the team that designed and launched the Togo Incentive-Based Risk-Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (MIFA-TIRSAL) in 2018, served as Team Leader for three consecutive FGN/IFAD RUFIN supervision missions, and, as National Coordinating Consultant to NIRSAL Plc, designed and established the NIRSAL National Microfinance Bank. He has been Lead Consultant to FAO on blended finance in Angola and Mozambique, Strategy Consultant to the Central Bank of Liberia on financial inclusion, and a national consultant to UNDP and the Central Bank of Nigeria on microfinance. He coordinated the ITC/ILO international experts team that developed the Access to Finance training curriculum for African workers and trade unions.

A respected trainer and facilitator, he has designed programmes for senior judges, boards of federal parastatals, electoral officers and development finance institutions. He has served as faculty at the Pan-Atlantic University Enterprise Development Centre, the Center for Microfinance Leadership in New York, the School of African Microfinance in Mombasa and the West African Institute for Financial and Economic Management.

He was a member of Senior Executive Course 44 at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies as a presidential nominee, and holds executive education credentials from Harvard Business School, Wharton and Columbia Business School. He is President of the Turnaround Management Association of Nigeria and a member of the Forbes Business Council.

Professional standing:

• Member of the National Institute (mni), NIPSS Senior Executive Course 44
• Fellow, Institute of Management Consultants
• Fellow, Microfinance Association of the United Kingdom
• Honorary Member, Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria
• President, Turnaround Management Association of Nigeria
• Member, Forbes Business Council
• Accredited Trainer, Centre for Management Development (CMD), Nigeria

Education: PhD; studies at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria; Bayero University, Kano; the University of Lagos; and Trinity College, Malaga, Spain. Executive education at Harvard Business School, the Wharton School and Columbia Business School, and microfinance training at the Boulder Institute of Microfinance and the School of African Microfinance. Commonwealth Scholar, MASHAV Scholar and MasterCard Foundation Scholar.

Board roles: Chairman, Global Knowledge Group; Board Chair, Beresh Consulting South Africa (Pty) Ltd; Independent Non-Executive Director and Board Audit Committee member, Dignity Finance and Investment Limited; Independent Non-Executive Director, Vivari Hotels and Spa, South Africa; Chairman of the Board of a microfinance bank; Advisory Board Member, FarmAlert.

Publications: Breaking the Value Trap; Defining Identity, Direction and Destiny: A Manual for Enterprises in Crises; Succeeding Amidst the Odds: Practical Business Development Strategies for MFIs; Enhancing Food Security in Nigeria through Agricultural Development Programmes.

Areas of expertise: Strategy and board advisory; public sector reform; agricultural and blended finance; microfinance and financial inclusion; turnaround management; programme leadership; executive training and curriculum design.