Dr Jumoke Oduwole MFR is the Honourable Minister, Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Investment of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Before serving as Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr Jumoke was Special Adviser to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) and Investment (OVP). Under the Buhari Administration, she served first as Senior Special Assistant to the President on Industry, Trade and Investment, and later as the Special Adviser to the President on Ease of Doing Business. At the PEBEC Secretariat, she and her team delivered over 200 verifiable reforms across government.
Recognised as one of Nigeria’s leading reformers, she was awarded the national honour of Member of the Order of the Federal Republic in 2023, and the Most Influential People of African Descent awarded her a “Hall of Fame” honour for her decade-long work on Nigeria’s business climate reforms. A policy entrepreneur of some repute, she was appointed as a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Centre for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School, and as a Governance Advisor to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Governance Lab in 2022, for her innovation in governance. She has also served on the Board of Ecobank Nigeria and worked in investment and corporate banking at FCMB and GT Bank.
Since 2015, Dr Oduwole has been seconded to the Federal Government of Nigeria from the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos, where she teaches and researches International Economic Law. She holds an LLB from the University of Lagos, an LLM from Cambridge, and JSM and JSD degrees from Stanford Law School, and is called to the Nigerian Bar.
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