Biography

Olufunmilayo Adedibu (Also known as Funmi Adedibu) is The Group General Counsel/ Company Secretary and the Group Executive Compliance Officer.

Funmi is a lawyer with wealth of experience in Legal practice and Banking. She graduated from Obafemi Awolowo University where she obtained a bachelor’s degree in Law (LL. B), then proceeded to the Nigerian Law School where she obtained a  B.L. She holds a Master of Law degree (LL.M) from the University of Lagos.

She started her legal career with the Law firm of Chris Ogunbanjo and Co where she garnered a lot of experience in Copyrights and Patent Laws before joining the banking Industry.

Funmi has over 29 post-graduation experience out of which 25 years has been in banking with experience spanning Corporate Banking, Commercial Banking, Risk Management, Banking Operations and currently Group Legal Services, Company Secretarial, Insurance and Compliance.

She has attended a number of Leadership and Management trainings from Harvard Business School, Queen’s School of Business Canada, Lagos Business School as well as Euromoney Loan Documentation and Advanced Loan Documentation Trainings in New York,

She is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), International Bar Association (IBA), Life member of the Institute of Directors (IoD), a Honorary member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (HCIB) and Toastmasters International.