Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu is a Nigerian political economist, lawyer, former United Nations official, and professor in
international business and public policy at the Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.Kingsley is the founder
of Sogato Strategies LLC and a senior adviser of the Official Monetary and
Financial Institutions Forum. In 2016, Moghalu founded the Institute for
Governance and Economic Transformation. He is the 2019 Young Progressive Party
(YPP) presidential candidate for the 2019 presidential elections.
Moghalu
was born in Lagos in 1963 to Isaac Moghalu, a Nigerian foreign service officer
and VidahMoghalu, a schoolteacher. Moghalu spent his early childhood in
Switzerland and Washington, DC, where his father was posted. In the late
1970s and early 1980s, Kingsley was enrolled in the Federal Government College Enugu.He earned a degree in law from the University of Nigeria in
1986, and the Barrister at Law from the Nigerian Law School, Lagos. Moghalu
married Maryanne
OnyinyechiMoghalu in 1994. They
have four children.
Moghalu
obtained a master's degree in 1992 at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
at Tufts University, where he was the Joan Gillespie Fellow and a research
assistant in the International Political Economy program. Moghalu later
obtained a PhD in international relations at the London School of Economics and
Political Science at the University of London. He also earned the International Certificate in Risk
Management from the Institute of Risk Management in London. He is also an
alumnus of advanced executive education programs 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.
Moghalu
served as deputy governor of financial system stability and the director of
the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from 2009 to 2014; he led the
implementation of reforms to Nigeria's failing banking sector. He is a member of
the International Islamic Liquidity Management Corporation and non-executive
director of the Asset Management Corporation of
Nigeria
Moghalu
joined the United Nations in 1992. His first assignment was in Cambodia as a UN
human rights and elections officer with the United Nations Transitional
Authority in Cambodia. A year later, he was appointed political affairs officer
in the department of peacekeeping operations at the UN Headquarters in New
York. From 1996 to 1997, he served in the former Yugoslavia as political
advisor to the special representative of the UN Secretary-General in Croatia.
Kingsley was then assigned as legal adviser to the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for
Rwanda (UNICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania, in
1997 and later promoted to the role of the international tribunal's spokesman.
As special counsel and spokesman, he was responsible for policy development,
strategic planning and external relations. The UNICTR delivered the first-ever
judgement by an international court on genocide.
In 2002, Moghalu was
appointed to the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, as head of global partnerships and
resource mobilization at The Global Fund to
Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), a
public-private international development finance organization and social
investment fund with $20 billion in assets and investments in 140 developing
and middle income countries. He was a member of the Global Fund's senior
management group that set corporate strategy, a member of the risk management
committee, and was promoted to the rank of director in 2006.
In 2006, United Nations
Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed Moghalu to the redesign panel of the United Nations
Internal Justice System. Working at the UN Headquarters in New York for six
months in the first half of 2006, the redesign panel reviewed and made
recommendations on how to improve the system of administration of justice at
the United Nations
In February 2018, Moghalu
declared his interest to run for the presidency of Nigeria.Kingsley chose to
run under the platform of the Young Progressive Party.
On 4 February 2019,
Maghalu paid a courtesy visit to the Ooni of Ife ahead of February 16
Presidential election. He declared his interest to run for presidency under the
political party of Youth Progressive Party (YPP). Ooni of Ife spoke on how
passionate Moghalu was during his presidential campaign. He further said he
likes the courage, the passion and his selfless control to serve his father
land
Books
written: Emerging Africa: How the Globa...2013,Build, Innovate and Grow...2018,Rwanda's genocide2005,Global justice2006
No comments:
Post a Comment