Lamido Abubakar Yuguda, the Director General of the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) Nigeria, has over 3 decades of experience in Banking, Accounting, Finance, Economics and Investment Management.

He spent 32 years at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in various roles. For 16 of these years, he led the team that successfully managed reserve assets that grew to billions of US dollars. In 1997, he joined the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Washington DC, on a four-year stint as an economist in the Africa Department where he worked on the assessment of economic policies and management of balance of payment support programmes in IMF member countries. He served in several departments of the CBN, and retired in 2016 as Director of Reserve Management.

Mr. Yuguda holds a B.Sc. degree in Accounting in 1983 from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria and an M.Sc. in Money, Banking and Finance in 1991 from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. He also holds a Certificate in Financial Asset Management and Engineering from the Swiss Finance Institute, Geneva and a Certificate in Investment Performance Management from the CFA Institute. He is a holder of the CFA charter, and Fellow of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN).

He has attended leadership training programmes at leading business schools including Harvard, INSEAD, IMD, Oxford Saïd, Wharton, Haas, Kellogg, Chicago Booth and London.

Mr. Yuguda has served as Non-Executive Director on the Boards of Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), National Pension Commission (PENCOM) and Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON).