Oluwakemi Owonubi Babalogbon is Executive Director at the Ministry of Finance Incorporated (MOFI). 

She is an accomplished finance professional with expertise and over 20 years of experience in corporate finance, private equity, mergers, acquisitions, equity research, buyouts and post-merger integrations. She has served in top management roles, including as Group Head of Mergers and Acquisition, Tangerine Financial Limited, where she was responsible for planning and driving the Tangerine group’s expansion into select African markets. Ms. Owonubi served on and supported the boards of several Tangerine portfolio companies across healthcare, life and general insurance. Prior to this, and in her role as Head Corporate Finance at Rand Merchant Bank Nigeria, she established and executed the bank’s corporate finance strategy, and worked alongside business leaders, clients to originate, manage and execute the merger or acquisition process through the transaction life cycle.

Oluwakemi holds a B.Sc in Economics from the University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria and is a Chartered Accountant. She also holds a master’s in business administration from the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), Lausanne Switzerland.

In her current capacity, Oluwakemi oversees the development and implementation of a risk management framework, policies and strategies, including investment and portfolio risk assessment and management, within MOFI. Additionally, she drives MOFI’s mandate to create a central register of FGN investment assets, the National Assets Register (“NAR”), in line with the organization’s broader mandate.