Amina Oyagbola

Amina Oyagbola is a business leader and former Human Resources and Corporate Services Executive at MTN Nigeria Communications Limited. With over 30 years’ experience, her career spans legal consulting, banking and finance, oil and gas and telecommunications. She is the managing consultant of AKMS Consulting Ltd (Business Advisory and management consultants), a partner in Oyagbola Chambers and a Chevening Scholar. She obtained her undergraduate law degree from Ahmadu Bello University, her Masters in Law from Cambridge University and her MBA from Lancaster University. She is also an alumnus of INSEAD, London Business School, IMD and Harvard Business School.

She started her career as a legal practitioner in the Chambers of late Chief FRA Williams. She started the legal department in the then Crystal Bank before moving to UBA as Head Legal where she transformed the legal department. She moved on to Head the Human Capital Management and subsequently set up the Private Banking Division as head. She joined Shell Petroleum Development Company to develop a new function as Head, HR Strategy, Standards and Business Planning. She joined MTN Nigeria, Africa’s leading telecommunications provider in 2004 as Corporate Services Executive and Corporate spokesperson.

During her 12-year tenure as a member of MTN Nigeria’s leadership team, she contributed notably to the company’s extraordinary growth and development. She had oversight over Legal, regulatory, company secretariat and corporate communications as Corporate services Executive. She was pioneer Director of the MTN Foundation. She led a strategic transformation in the HR Function to improve business performance as HR Executive, with the company becoming the 1st company in Nigeria to be accredited with the Investors in People Gold Standard in May, 2015 and winning several other awards. She was also nominated as HR person of the year in 2015 by People magazine. She also served on the MTN Group Strategy Committee, and on the board of MTN Spacetel Benin Board, Chairing the Boards Audit and Risk Committee. In Dec 2015, during a period of regulatory crisis, she was called upon to successfully lead both the HR Function and all Corporate Services functions including Legal, Regulatory and Corporate Affairs.

She is a Fellow and Chair of The Africa Leadership Initiative – West Africa. A Fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, Member CIPM and Chartered Fellow, CIPD UK, a Certified Ethics Officer, a Trustee and Member of Women Corporate Directors (WCD-Nigeria Chapter) and a Fellow, Institute of Directors. A passionate advocate for diversity and inclusiveness, she is Founder and Chairperson of WISCAR (Women in Successful Careers), a not-for-profit, gender empowerment and strategic mentoring and leadership initiative for professional career women.