{"id":29390,"date":"2025-10-03T12:32:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afis.africa\/sb_speaker\/oluwatoyin-sanni\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T13:08:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:08:33","slug":"oluwatoyin-sanni-2","status":"publish","type":"sb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/www.afis.africa\/en\/sb_speaker\/oluwatoyin-sanni-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Oluwatoyin SANNI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr. Oluwatoyin F. Sanni\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><strong>Founder\/Executive Vice-Chair, Emerging Africa Group\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Oluwatoyin Sanni is Executive Vice-Chair at leading Pan-African Investment\u00a0<br \/>Group, Emerging Africa Group, a financial services group focused on investing in sectors\u00a0<br \/>with catalytic impact on growth and development, cutting across Investment Banking,\u00a0<br \/>Trusts &amp; Asset Management, Microfinance Banking, Financial Technology and\u00a0<br \/>Infrastructure Finance which has been ranked as #46 on Financial Times&#8217; 2025 list of\u00a0<br \/>Africa\u2019s Fastest Growing Companies.\u00a0<br \/>Dr. Sanni sits on multiple boards including serving as Chairman, Layer3 Limited, Non-\u00a0<br \/>Executive Director, Transnational Corporation Plc and Member, Nigeria\u2019s National\u00a0<br \/>Advisory Board on Impact Investing (NABII), Chair of the NABII Committee on Wholesale\u00a0<br \/>Impact Investment Fund (WIIF) and Member, National Finance Committee on WIIF.\u00a0<br \/>She is the Founder and Chairperson of Women in Finance Nigeria and Founder of\u00a0<br \/>WIFNG UK, a platform for advocacy, development, and networking of women in\u00a0<br \/>financial roles and financial services. Her other roles include Chair, of the Technical\u00a0<br \/>Committee on Financial Literacy and Member of the Investment Committee of Africa\u2019s\u00a0<br \/>Off-Grid Energy Fund (OGEF). She also serves as an Ambassador for Nigeria for the Africa\u00a0<br \/>CEO Forum.\u00a0<br \/>She has extensive experience as a prominent Investment Banker, Business Leader, Public\u00a0<br \/>Personality &amp; Speaker and derives satisfaction from grooming future leaders. She\u00a0<br \/>leverages networks across markets and her expertise in leading transformational\u00a0<br \/>initiatives and projects to achieve growth and development objectives.\u00a0<br \/>Dr. Sanni is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School Owner President Management\u00a0<br \/>Program, the Lagos Business School CEO Program, and has attended other Executive\u00a0<br \/>Programs at the Harvard, Wharton and IESE Business Schools. In 2023, Dr. Sanni was\u00a0<br \/>awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Strategic Leadership &amp; Inclusive Finance from the\u00a0<br \/>American Management University, California. She is currently in the final year of her\u00a0<br \/>Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA), specializing in the Internationalization of\u00a0<br \/>African Family Businesses at the Paris School of Business, France.\u00a0<br \/>Dr. Sanni has won numerous awards including the All Africa Businesswoman of the Year\u00a0<br \/>AABLA 2017 by CNBC\/Forbes, Nigerian CEO of the Year 2018 by Pearl Awards, Business\u00a0<br \/>Day Top 25 CEO (2014, 2015 &amp; 2016), Tech Times African Influencer CEO, 2020 and 2021,\u00a0<br \/>Best Woman Leader in Africa at the Africa Investment Forum &amp; Awards, (AIFA) Paris amongst\u00a0<br \/>others. 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