Sanyade Okoli is a leading African finance expert with three decades of experience across policy advisory, financial advisory, private equity, corporate, commercial & management finance, as well as auditing. She is currently the Special Adviser to Nigeria’s President on Finance and the Economy. She is resident in the Office of the Honourable Minister of Finance & Coordinating Minister of the Economy, leading on the Minister’s economic coordination effort and operating as Chief of Staff.

Prior to that, she was CEO of Alpha African Advisory Limited and also a trained transformational life coach, focused on inner healing and restoration. Sanyade holds an MA in Mechanical Engineering from Cambridge University, UK. She is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants England & Wales, a Fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, and a member of the Institute of Directors Nigeria.