Enase Okonedo

Professor Enase Okonedo is the current Dean of the Lagos Business School (LBS), Pan-Atlantic University where she has spent about twenty-five years including twenty years in leadership positions. As Dean, she provides leadership for all strategic, administrative and academic matters of the institution.

At LBS, she led the school to achieve AACSB International accreditation in 2017 placing LBS among the top 5 schools in Africa to be accredited and joining the league of less than 5% of business schools globally which have achieved this feat; as well as attain the Financial Times ranking of top 50 global business schools in Executive Education in 2020 and only African business school ranked in

The Economist top 50 Executive MBA Programs in 2018. Prior to joining the LBS, she worked in Financial Services at IMB Securities from 1990 to 1995 as Unit Head, Funds & Investment Unit-Commercial Papers, Unit Head, Funds & Investment Unit– Placements and Supervisor, Money and Capital Markets Unit. She sits on the Board of Rand Merchant Bank Nigeria and is the Chairperson of the Board Governance, Nominations and Ethics Committee. She also sits on the board of the Nigerian Exchange Group Plc (Holding Company of Nigerian Stock Exchange) and is an Independent Non-Executive Director of ATC Nigeria Wireless Infrastructure Limited. Internationally, she is Member of the Board of Directors of Global Business School Network (GBSN), Washington, United States of America and The Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC ; owners of the GMAT test).

She is a Professor of Management, Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos. She also holds a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA), International School of Management (ISM), Paris, a Master in Business Administration, International Graduate School of Management (IESE), University of Navarre; Barcelona, Spain and a Bachelor in Accounting (BSc), University of Benin, Benin, Nigeria.

She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA), the Society of Corporate Governance Nigeria and the International Academy of Management.