Professor Charles Soludo

Former Governor of the Central Bank

Date of Birth: 28/07/1960

Married to Nonye Soludo, four children

Education: BA, MSc Economics, PhD, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1984-80;

Career: Appointed Professor of Economics, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1998; Visiting Professor, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, United States, 1999;  joined federal government, 2003; Chief Economic Advisor to President Olusegun Obasanjo; Chief Executive, National Planning Commission; Governor of the Central Bank, 2004-09.

Commentary: Soludo's planned and announced redomination excercise for the naira was prevented by Umaru Musa Yar'Adua. In 2008 he appeared before an anti-corruption panel set up to investigate the African Finance Institution, an institution he established to mirror the IFC, the financing arm of the World Bank.