Charles Nwanne Obiajulu Mordi
Charles Nwanne Obiajulu Mordi
Chairman
Charles N. O. Mordi is a retired Director of Research, Central Bank of Nigeria, an institution he meritoriously served for 35 years. He holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc, Honors) and a Master of Science (MSc) degrees in Economics from the University of Lagos.
He began his professional career with the Central Bank of Nigeria in 1980. He rose through the various professional Economist cadres and in October 1993, he was seconded to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) where he served as a Country Economist for Namibia and Botswana in the African Department from October 1993 to March 1998. At various times during this period, he was a member of the IMF surveillance mission teams to Malawi and Lesotho.
Personal Information
On his return from the IMF in 1998, Mr. Mordi was seconded on a special assignment to the Federal Ministry of Finance as a Special Assistant to the Honorable Minister of Finance, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Mallam Ismaila Usman, a position he occupied until May 29, 1999. On his return to the Bank, he held various positions at the executive cadre in the Research and Governors’ Departments before his appointment as the Director of Research in April 2007, a position he held until his retirement on April 25, 2015, having served the Bank meritoriously for 35 years. Mr. Mordi at various times represented the CBN on the Boards of some Federal Government parastatals, namely: ICRC, NISER, CMD, NDE, and served on several interagency committees. He is a life member of the Nigerian Economic Society (NES) and was at one time an ex-officio member of the council of the Society (NES); he also served as one of the two Vice Presidents during 2009-2011. He has participated in various local and international courses, seminars and conferences. He has served regularly as a faculty member/resource person at the West African Institute for Financial and Economic Management (WAIFEM), since 2000, in such specialized areas as open economy macroeconomics, vector auto-regression (VAR) modelling, time series econometrics, macroeconomic modelling, using EViews, modelling demand for money, and modelling relative effectiveness of monetary and fiscal policies, amongst others. He has also facilitated in several training programs facilitated by the Polar-Afriqué Consulting Limited. He has many publications to his credit.
Upon retirement from the Central Bank of Nigeria in 2015, Mr. Mordi joined the management team of Polar-Afrique Consulting Limited as an Executive Director (non-remunerated), where his responsibilities include conducting independent research, consulting and capacity building/training for public/private sector organizations in the areas of economics, banking and finance, financial markets, public sector debt, and political economy, among others.
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Analytics
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Editorial Advisory
Mr. Mordi has been a Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the West African Journal of Monetary and Economic Integration (WAJMEI) and the Occasional Paper Series of the West African Monetary Institute (WAMI), Accra, Ghana, since 2018.
