Remi Odunlami was appointed a Non-Executive Director on the Board of First Bank of Nigeria Limited in March 2024. She brings to the board over 30 years vast experience in enterprise risk management; relationship and stakeholder management; compliance, audit and assurance; general management; and corporate governance.
She has served in various management and board leadership positions such as the Director/Country Risk Manager in CitiBank Nigeria Limited where she managed the credit portfolio and enterprise risk management processes within the bank, and she was the first female in CitiBank across Africa to serve as an Independent Risk Senior Credit Officer. She also served as the Executive Director, Chief Risk Officer in FirstBank, managing a credit portfolio in excess of N1.5 trillion, and simultaneously, as a Non-Executive Director across other FirstBank affiliated entities and subsidiary such as FirstBank UK, FBN Capital and Kakawa Discount House.
Remi currently sits on the Board of Access Pensions Limited as an Independent Non-Executive Director and on the Board of Rand Merchant Bank Limited as a Non-Executive Director. She is a fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (FCCA), honorary member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Nigeria (CIBN), and member of the Institute of Directors (IoD).
She holds a B.Sc Honours degree in Mathematics from University of Warwick, Coventry, England and has attended several professional, management, and leadership programmes globally.
