Matthias Chika Mordi


Matthias Chika Mordi is from Delta State, in Nigeria and was a refugee during Nigeria’s civil war. He is an economist by training and a renowned banker. He is the Chief Executive Officer of National Competitiveness Council of Nigeria and the Chairman of United Capital. He is an Honourable Senior member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria and Alternate president of the West African Institute of Bankers. Mordi is famous for co-leading the team that turned around Standard Trust and built it into the largest sub-Saharan African banking group in a space of seven years. The bank moved from 12 branches, 10,000 account holders, negative equity and less than three hundred employees to a $3.2 billion dollar, 700 branch footprint, 12,000 employees and a presence across the continent.

Education

MBA and four Master's degrees in Public Sector Leadership and Policy, IESE Business School, Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School of Gov't, Johns Hopkins University - Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and American Univ.BSc in Economics, University of Ilorin.

Career

Chika is a professional banker and spent over two decades in various roles in the banking industry, including retail and investment banking corporate banking and venture capital. Chika was the Executive Director of Corporate and Investment banking of Standard Trust Bank- he was the de facto deputy CEO acting for the CEO on multiple occasions, MD/CEO of Continental Trust Bank, MD/CEO of UBA Capital. Chief Executive Officer Accender Africa in Washington D.C. Chika is an active participant in capital markets and he is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1991, registered with the United Kingdom’s Financial Services Authority and has since managed and executed several landmark transactions in sub-Saharan Africa. He has served as a board director of over twenty financial institutions in Africa and the United Kingdom and several non-financial institutions. In 2016, Mordi was appointed to the advisory board of Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center.. Chika served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Board, several government committees and was a member of The Crans Montana Forum. Mordi incubated businesses in aviation, energy and communications in Sub saharan Africa.

Philosophy

Matthias Chika Mordi is a radical proponent of free market, liberal democracy and keen about reducing extreme poverty and transformative development in Africa. He believes that a country can be moved out of poverty through created prosperity and not inherited prosperity physically endowed wealth like oil, ores and mineral resources- because created prosperity sustains job rich economic growth and sustained growth leads to socio-economic outcomes over time.