Olusegun Olutoyin Aganga
Federal minister of Nigeria
Olusegun Olutoyin Aganga (born 1955) is a Nigerian politician who served as the Minister of Industry, Trade, and Investment of Nigeria from 2011 to 2015. He was first nominated by President Olusegun Obasanjo and appointed by President Goodluck Jonathan as the Minister of Finance from 6 April 2010 to June 2011.
Achievements
Mr. Aganga's achievements included establishing Nigeria’s Sovereign Wealth Fund; issuing the Nation's first ever Euro Bond; chairing the World Bank and IMF in 2010, chairing the 8th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (MC8) in Geneva in 2011 (the first African to chair these organizations).
He was also responsible for structuring and financing the first standard gauge rail (Abuja to Kaduna) in Nigeria. He is also the Chairman of Marina Express, the first private sector developer of rail in Lagos. He sits on a number of Boards including the Advisory Board of the Queens Commonwealth Trust based in the United Kingdom.
Some specific milestone achievements include:
Complete transformation of the Federal Government of Nigerian (FGN) Ministry of Trade & Investment (MITI) into Nigeria's number 1 economic ministry.
Operationalized Nigeria's debt resolution vehicle, the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), to improve the liquidity and bring stability into banking industry after the global economic crisis working closely with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
As chair of the WTO MC8 ministerial conference, he laid the foundation for the first WTO trade agreement and also played a pivotal role in finalizing the agreement in Bali, Indonesia, in 2013.
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