The Secretary General

Alhaji Muhammad Mumuni
Biography

Speeches and Statements

Galleries

100th session Council of Ministers

Ministerial Committee on Development Finance

28th ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly

36th session ACP Parliamentary Assembly

Symposium on Ebola

ACP Day 2014 - Culture Night

ACP Day 2014 - Seminar

More galleries on Flickr

More galleries on this site

Vacancies

Reviser, English Section (P4)

Intra-ACP Programmes

INTRA-ACP PROGRAMMING MATRIX (Overview)
 
ACP Business Climate
ACP-EU Cultures+
ACP-EU Energy Facility
ACP-EU EDULINK Programme
ACP-EU Fish II Programme
ACP Local Government Platform
ACP-EU Microfinance Programme
ACP Mining Database
ACP Multilateral Trading System Programme
ACP Observatory on Migration
ACP-EU Science and Technology
ACP Sugar Research Programme
ACP-EU Water Facility
African Peace Facility
ACP-EU Technical Barriers to Trade Programme
Centre pour le Développement de l'Entreprise (CDE)

Centre Technique de Coopération Agricole et Rurale (CTA)
Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA)
Strengthening Fishery Products

Home

Chef de Cabinet

Printer-friendly versionPDF version

Dr. Obadiah Mailafia

Dr. Mailafia is a Nigerian national. He graduated at the head of his class with a B.Sc. Social Sciences Honours degree (Politics, Economics and Sociology) at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria and did post-graduate studies in International Economics at IIAP (École Nationale d’Administration--IIAP) in Paris, France. He completed his doctorate degree at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, where he was a Foreign and Commonwealth Office Scholar.

He worked for several years as a university academic, rising to the level of Associate Professor in London before joining the African Development Bank (ADB) Group; serving in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, and in Tunis. He was a recipient of the Mamoun Beheiry Award for distinguished services to the ADB Group. He later returned to his home country where he was appointed Deputy Governor of the Central Bank with responsibility for monetary policy, statistics, economic analysis and relations with regional and international institutions. Dr. Mailafia was later appointed Senior Policy Advisor to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria with the rank of Minister of State. Until his current appointment as Chef de Cabinet of the ACP Group, he was the Founder/Chairman of the Centre for Policy and Economic Research (CEPER), a macroeconomics and public policy think tank based in Abuja, Nigeria. He has several publications to his name in economics, finance and public policy.

Widely regarded as one of the thought-leaders of the New Africa, Dr. Mailafia brings to the ACP the background of a seasoned economist, administrator and a respected international banker. In terms of extracurricular interests, Dr. Mailafia has been a popular newspaper columnist and current affairs commentator and enjoys classical music, literature, patristic theology, tennis, football, Egyptology and the study of ancient African traditions. He is married to Margaret, a systems analyst and entrepreneur, and they are blessed with children.


Avenue Georges Henri 451
B - 1200 Bruxelles - Brussels
Belgique - Belgium
email : [email protected]
Tel: +32 2 743 06 00
Fax: +32 2 735 55 73
see map/voir plan

ACP Staff Directory

  ACP Webmail

ACP Events
« February 2015 »
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
232425262728
In Focus

ACP Eminent Persons Group

ACP Eminent Persons Group

ACP Women: Actors in Development

ACP Annual Review

Watch

CCTV Report - ACP Strategy for Private Sector

ACP Symposium on Ebola - Ambassador of Liberia

ACP Symposium on Ebola - Ambassador of Ghana

More videos on ACP Press Channel on YouTube

ACP Video Stream

Live stream from CTA/IICA Agribusiness Forum

ACP Public Documents