Dr Christopher Onosode

Christopher has several years of experience in capital project costing and budgeting, project management, business process modelling, strategy, policy analysis and development, and public financial management having worked in private and public sectors organisations such as NAL Merchant Bank (now Sterling Bank), Cadbury Schweppes Plc, Shell UK, Global EIT (Pte) Singapore, the Debt Management Office of Nigeria and PricewaterhouseCoopers and as an Independent Consultant on several state and federal government assignments. Since March 2017, Christopher has been Country Director for Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN), a leading UK non-governmental organisation on the Niger Delta. With his deep knowledge of the donor community, Christopher provides strategic as well as operational leadership to SDN and to teams working on projects funded by UK’s FCO/BHC, DFID, USAID, EU, the Dutch Embassy, The MacArthur and Ken Saro-Wiwa Foundations, among others. Christopher also sits in a non-executive capacity on a number of boards including Mainstream Global Insurance Brokers (Chairman), Lilybank Property & Trust Ltd (Director) and the Initiative for Community Development (Trustee). An avid sportsman and pianist, Christopher holds degrees in Economics from the University of Kent, UK and the London School of Economics, and a B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of Ibadan.