Buno Nduka, Ph.D

Buno Nduka PhD is a teacher, researcher, financial inclusion specialist, and certified anti-money specialist. He has a doctorate in Economics from the University of Benin specialising in Econometrics and Financial Economics, a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Statistics from the University of Ibadan. He also has MBA (Finance) degree from the University of Lagos; an accredited PRINCE 2 Programme Management specialist and a trained SAP.

Buno is an active member of the Financial Alliance Initiative (FAI) in New York University, and was a Senior Programme Manager at the West Africa Institute for Financial and Economic Management (WAIFEM) where he was actively involved in capacity building in financial sector development and macroeconomic management across West Africa; anchored the WAIFEM Regional and National Capacity Building activities on financial inclusion and Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Programmes.

Buno has consulted for the Central Bank of Nigeria on the development and growth of microfinance, where he also helped in capacity building for operators and directors of microfinance banks in Nigeria. He has authored several books, published articles in international academic journals and made several presentations at international and national fora. He is presently the Director of Programmes and Projects at Inter-governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA), Dakar, Senegal, where he takes a leading role in the design and delivery of intervention programmes for effective implementation of internationally acceptable AML/CFT framework in ECOWAS member states.

He brings to the team his wealth of knowledge and experience in the application of micro-econometric tools in programme intervention and evaluation in Africa, Asia and North America spanning over 25 years from eight different organisations across several economic sectors.