Dr. Oluwatoyin Sanni is Executive Vice-Chair at leading Pan-African Investment

Group, Emerging Africa Group, a financial services group focused on investing in sectors with catalytic impact on growth and development, cutting across Investment Banking, Trusts & Asset Management, Microfinance Banking, Financial Technology and Infrastructure Finance which has been ranked as #46 on Financial Times' 2025 list of Africa’s Fastest Growing Companies.

Dr. Sanni sits on multiple boards including serving as Chairman, Layer3 Limited, Non-Executive Director, Transnational Corporation Plc and Member, Nigeria’s National Advisory Board on Impact Investing (NABII), Chair of the NABII Committee on Wholesale Impact Investment Fund (WIIF) and Member, National Finance Committee on WIIF.

She is the Founder and Chairperson of Women in Finance Nigeria and Founder of WIFNG UK, a platform for advocacy, development, and networking of women in financial roles and financial services. Her other roles include Chair, of the Technical Committee on Financial Literacy and Member of the Investment Committee of Africa’s Off-Grid Energy Fund (OGEF). She also serves as an Ambassador for Nigeria for the Africa CEO Forum.

She has extensive experience as a prominent Investment Banker, Business Leader, Public Personality & Speaker and derives satisfaction from grooming future leaders. She leverages networks across markets and her expertise in leading transformational initiatives and projects to achieve growth and development objectives.

Dr. Sanni is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School Owner President Management Program, the Lagos Business School CEO Program, and has attended other Executive Programs at the Harvard, Wharton and IESE Business Schools. In 2023, Dr. Sanni was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Strategic Leadership & Inclusive Finance from the American Management University, California. She is currently in the final year of her Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA), specializing in the Internationalization of African Family Businesses at the Paris School of Business, France.

Dr. Sanni has won numerous awards including the All Africa Businesswoman of the Year AABLA 2017 by CNBC/Forbes, Nigerian CEO of the Year 2018 by Pearl Awards, Business Day Top 25 CEO (2014, 2015 & 2016), Tech Times African Influencer CEO, 2020 and 2021, Best Woman Leader in Africa at the Africa Investment Forum & Awards, (AIFA) Paris amongst others. Toyin is a LinkedIn Top Voice and one of Africa’s foremost Thought Leaders.