Dr. Tayo Aduloju has been named by the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) as the organization’s new CEO, with effect from January 1, 2024. Tayo Aduloju held the position of senior fellow for economic policy, strategy, and competitiveness at the NESG in addition to chief operational officer prior to his appointment. Dr. Tayo Aduloju takes over as the NESG’s sixth CEO with this appointment.
Aduloju was characterized as a scholar-practitioner, economist, policy entrepreneur, and strategist by NESG in a statement announcing his departure from the organization.
He has helped advance reform efforts in a number of socioeconomic domains, including as public service reforms, aviation, agriculture, finance, governance, performance management, fiscal development, human resources, and investment promotion.
Aduloju served as a policy advisor for former Presidents Yar’Adua, Obasanjo, and Buhari before being appointed to this position. He had oversaw the NESG’s national public-private leadership network and dialogue forums at different points in time, helping to drive the country’s economic transformation and position Nigeria as a competitive, sustainable, and inclusive player on the global arena.
In addition to serving as the program director for the NESG high-level forum on Sustainable Development Goals, Dr. Aduloju is an Okun Economic Fellow for Africa and the Middle East, the chair of the country’s illicit financial flows mapping group, the co-chair of the Nigeria Open Government Partnership’s technical working group on poverty eradication and social protection, and the private sector advisor for the presidential task force on COVID-19.
“His commentary on economic policy examines empirical evidence and applies pragmatism to discussing economic change in Nigerian print and internet media,” the NESG said of Aduloju. He has also previously served as the primary historian and archivist for creating the “In the National Interest” television documentary series, which explored the background and effects of the NESG.
Incorporated in 1996, the Nigerian Economic Summit Group is a non-profit, non-partisan private sector organisation with a mandate to promote and champion the reform of the Nigerian Economy into a modern, globally competitive, sustainable, inclusive, and open economy.
