Vitus C. Ukwuoma

Mr. Vitus Ukwuoma joined the AFRITAC West2 in March 2019 as a Regional Advisor in Financial Regulation and Supervision. He began his financial supervision career as a bank examiner with the Maryland State Bank Commissioner’s Office, United States. He later joined the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System where he worked for well over 18 years in various capacities, including the responsibility for directing the supervisory oversight of more than 800 commercial banks during the 2007 financial crisis. In the last five years he served as a Resident Advisor in Financial Regulation and Supervision to the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Bank of Sierra Leone. He holds a BS degree in Accounting and an MBA degree in Finance, and he is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in the State of Maryland.