Mr. Olawale Edun is currently Nigeria’s Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of London and a Master’s Degree in Economics from the University of Sussex, England. Mr. Edun has had a tremendous career in the financial sector both in national and international companies. Between 1999 – 2004, he served as Lagos State Commissioner of Finance under the then-governor, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu. In 1994, he founded Denham Management Limited, which has since become the Chapelhill Denham Group; he has served as its chairman since March 2008. In 1989, Mr. Edun co-founded Investment Banking & Trust Company Limited (now Stanbic IBTC) and served as an Executive Director. He joined the World Bank in September 1986 through the elite Young Professionals programme, where he worked on economic and financial packages for several countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Before then, from 1980 to 1986, he worked at Chase Merchant Bank (later Continental) in Lagos, Nigeria.