DR. FRANKLIN N. UGWU M.CIoD

CO-CHAIR, PRIVATE SECTOR ADVISORY BOARD ON UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS  (SDGs)

Dr Ngwu is an experienced leader, advisor and academic with over 20 years’ experience in teaching, private/public sector advisory, policy research and consulting both in Africa and United Kingdom. He serves on the board of private sector organizations and development-focused initiatives and leads several policy engagements and research projects at National and International levels. He worked in Barclays Bank UK for over five years, and has lectured at Glasgow School of Business and Society, Glasgow Caledonian University; School of Built Environment and Business, University of Salford; Department of Economics and School of Law, University of Manchester, UK. He has multi-disciplinary teaching and research interests including Bank Management and Financial Services Regulation, Economic Governance and Management, Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility, Economics and Analysis of Public Policy Reforms, Enterprise-wide Risk Management, Law and Finance in Emerging Markets, and Development Economics.

He is the author of many peer reviewed journals, book chapters and four governance and sustainable development books- Corporate Governance in Developing and Emerging Markets (Routledge, 2016), Enhancing Board Effectiveness-Institutional, Regulatory and Functional Perspectives for Developing and Emerging Markets (Routledge, 2019), Corporate Social Responsibility in Developing and Emerging Markets: Institutions, Actors and Sustainable Development (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Corporate Social Responsibility Across the Globe: Innovative Resolution of Regulatory and Governance Challenges (Cambridge University Press, 2022). He is working on his fifth book, The Cambridge Handbook of Banking in Africa, that will be published by Cambridge University Press.