Ms. Cecilia Akintomide is an accomplished executive with expertise in Development Finance, Corporate Governance, Law, and Strategy. Cecilia currently provides Advisory Services to the Group CEO of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated, also known as ETI, a Pan African Financial Services Holding Company headquartered in Lomé, Togo, with affiliates present in 35 African countries, as well as in France, UK, UAE and China. At ETI, Cecilia focuses on Strategic Institutional Partnerships.
Cecilia is the Chairperson of the United Nations Sanitation and Hygiene Fund, and Independent Director on the Boards of Parthian Partners; Dorman Long Engineering; CcHub Growth Capital; and Tempo Paper Pulp and Packaging Company. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, and Chartered Institute of Directors, Nigeria. Prior, she served as an independent director on the board of FBN Holdings Plc., and in senior roles including Vice President Secretary General as well as Head of Public and Private Sector Operations and Policy, in the General Counsel & Legal Services Department of the African Development Bank (AfDB). Prior to the AfDB, Cecilia practiced law in Lagos, Washington D.C., and New York, at the law firms of O. Thomas & Co.; Thompson & Co.; and Weil, Gotshal & Manges.
She is a life member of WIMBIZ (Women in Management and Business and Public Service). Cecilia has received several awards, including the National Award of the Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON) from the Federal Republic of Nigeria, in 2014, and in 2019, the African Business Law Icon of the year award.
Cecilia holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Ife (now OAU); Master of Laws from the University of Miami Law School; Master of Laws from the University of Pennsylvania Law School; and an Executive MBA from TRIUM (a combined program by LSE, NYU and HEC). She was also admitted to the Nigerian Bar and the New York State Bar.
