Africa Development Conference 2025

Professor Kingsley Moghalu, a globally recognized leader in governance, public policy and economic transformation, is the inaugural President of the African School of Governance (ASG), a pan-African, graduate-level public policy university that aims to shape governance solutions for Africa’s needs in the 21st century.

He was previously Professor of Practice in International Business and Public Policy at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Oxford Martin Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford, and earlier served as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. Prior, Prof. Moghalu had a 17-year career in the United Nations System, with strategic planning, legal and external affairs roles at duty stations in New York, Cambodia, Croatia, Tanzania, and Switzerland, rising to the highest career bracket of Director. He later founded Sogato Strategies, a risk and strategy advisory firm in Geneva, Switzerland and in Washington DC, as well as the Institute for Governance and Economic Transformation (IGET), a public policy think tank. Kingsley Moghalu has also served as Special Envoy of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) on Post-Covid19 Development Finance for Africa.

Prof. Moghalu obtained a Ph.D. in International Relations at the London School of Economics, an M.A. at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, and the LL.B. degree from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He is an executive education alumnus of Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Business School, Wharton, Columbia University Business School, Chicago Booth Business School, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Institute, and IMD. He also is the author of several books including the critically acclaimed Emerging Africa.

Kingsley Moghalu holds several honors and distinctions including the Nigerian National Honor of the Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON) conferred by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 2012, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (FCIB), the degree of Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) Honoris Causa, and Fellow of the Academy of International Affairs of Nigeria (FAIA). He also holds the traditional title of Ifekaego of Nnewi Kingdom conferred by the Igwe of Nnewi Kingdom, Dr. K.O.N. Orizu. Prof. Moghalu is the Founder of the Isaac Moghalu Foundation, a charity established in memory of his late father Isaac Moghalu, one of Nigeria’s Foreign Service Officers in the 1960s

He is married to Maryanne Moghalu and they have 5 children.