Dr. Rabiu Olowo is a corporate reporting and public finance leader. As the Executive Secretary/ Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria , he leads a team that sees to the development and implementation of corporate governance directives across private and public institutions.
As a commissioner, he successfully shepherded the fiscal policy and strategy of Lagos, a state known as the 5th largest economy in Africa. With his intellectual acuity, he was able to position the state on the right pedestal in revenue generation and management, expenditure and investment management, debt management, financial reporting and governance.
Aimed with an MBA from University of Lagos and a MSC in accounting and finance from Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK, the egghead has significant experience that transcends not only corporate financial reporting, public sector accounting and financial management to also playing key roles in multiple industries from banking and other financial services, public sector organisations, manufacturing, not-for-profit, startups, among others.
In 2023, he won the ‘Forty Under 40’ Africa award as the continent’s most accomplished and influential professionals under the age of 40 years. He was named the Public Finance Administrator of the Year in Nigeria. Chief Teju Phillips is a successful Chartered Accountant who holds an ACCA from England and Wales. Her Articleship as an Accountant was in the globally renowned firm of Peat Marwick & Castleton Elliot . She has professional training in Executive Development Programmes in Havard , Columbia & Wharton Business Schools and has attended various management training courses both locally and internationally. She speaks Yoruba, English and French fluently.
Nigeria; Board Member, Women in Boardroom; Member, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria Presidential Committee; Member, ICAN Annual Conference Committee;