Draft:Ola olanipekun

Mr. Olanipekun Olukoyede is the fifth Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. He was confirmed by the Nigerian Senate on October 18, 2023.

He took over from Mr. Abdulkarim Chukkol who served as Acting Chairman of the Commission following the suspension of Abdulrasheed Bawa on June 14, 2023. Before Olukoyede’s appointment, he had previously served as Chief of Staff to a former Acting Executive Chairman, Mr. Ibrahim Magu and was confirmed as Secretary to the Commission on November 28, 2018.

A legal practitioner and Certified Fraud Examiner, (CFE), Olukoyede is a regulatory compliance consultant with specialty in compliance management, corporate intelligence and fraud management. He has considerable insight and experience in the investigation and civil litigation of fraud and financial crimes.

The EFCC Chairman is also a consultant on manpower development. He has undertaken several anti-corruption surveys and reviews for a number of law enforcement agencies, government institutions and corporate organizations both locally and internationally. His forte also include anti-corruption research and analysis, corporate and business intelligence.

Olukoyede is an urbane attorney who honed his skills in some of the best institutions locally and abroad. He had his education at Lagos State University; University of Lagos; Institute of Arbitration ICC – Paris, France and Harvard’s Kennedy School (Executive Education). He also attended the Public Corruption Management programme at the prestigious University of Oxford.

In the course of his career, the new EFCC Chair has had the privilege to participate in very important national and international committees, including membership of the Fraud Advisory Panel (UK) and the Federal Government Technical Committee on the Repositioning of the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, NFIU.

A prolific scholar, his publications include Anti-corruption and Fraud Systems Study and Review in Organizations; Nigerian Banking and Insurance Law Reports; Corporate Law Review; Contract and Procurement Fraud Analysis, 2007; Fraud Risk Analysis & Management; Corporate Fraud Investigation Management; Employment & Employee’s Fraud and Managing Fraud Investigation.

Olukoyede is a member of several professional associations locally and internationally. He is Member, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners – USA; Member, Fraud Advisory Panel – UK; Member, Nigerian Bar Association; Member, Fraud Awareness Working Group and Member, Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics – USA.

He was born in Ikere-Ekiti, Ekiti State, on October 14, 1969.