Director-General, Budget Office
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 DG-Budget Office, Finance,
Dr. Okogu Bright |
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Director-General, Budget Office of the Federation
Dr. Okogu Bright obtained
his B.SC and M.SC (Econ.) from the London School of Economics
in 1978 and 1979 respectively, and capped his academic pursuit with a Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 1987.
Dr. Okogu Bright comes with a rich background spanning a career at the Organization
of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), where he served as a Market Analyst between 1989 and 1997, and as a Senior Operations Officer at the OPEC Fund of International
Development - both in Vienna, Austria.
Until his new appointment, Dr. Okogu was a Senior Economist in the Middle East and
Central Asia Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which he joined
in 1999. He was at various times in charge of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Quatar.
Dr. Okogu Bright was a member / secretary of the Economic Management Team (EMT)
and of the Cash Management Committee responsible for overseeing the implementation
of the federal budget, during his first duty tour in the Federal Ministry of Finance.
Dr. Okogu Bright has also chaired several important national committes which include
the presidential Committee on Oil and Gas (2004-2005), The Inter-Ministerial Assessment
Committee For The Implementation of the Federal Budget (2004-2006) and the Review
and Advisory Committee on ways to speed up the work of the 'Due Process' Office,
(2004-2005).
Dr. Okogu Bright has published over 50 articles in peer-reviewed international journals
and wrote chapters in books in the areas of Macroeconomic policy, Petroleum economics,
Energy and Environmental economics as well as developmental Economics.
As a team player, he played a key role when he worked closely with the then Minister
of Finance and other officials to close the deal that made Nigeria to achieve the
popular debt relief from the Paris Club of creditors.
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