Oluranti Doherty
Ms. Oluranti Doherty is Director, Export Development at the African Export Import Bank (the “Bank”). In her current role, she oversees the Bank’s products, initiatives and programmes that support the development of export-related projects in light and heavy manufacturing, agro-processing, extractives, hospitality and healthcare sectors. She also oversees the Bank’s product and initiative which supports the development of Industrial Parks (“IPs”) and Special Economic Zones (“SEZs”) across Africa.
Ms. Doherty has over 20 years of work experience that cuts across Financial Advisory, Project Finance, Project Development, Credit Analysis and Structuring. She has varied experience providing advisory services on fundraising (debt and equity), sale documents development (business plans and information memorandums), business valuations, mergers and acquisition to several multi-national companies, private and public-sector clients across sectors such as financial services, energy, healthcare, hospitality and manufacturing. More recently, in her current role, Ms. Doherty has also provided advisory services to national governments and export development agencies on formulating industrial policies, designing and implementation of national export diversification and industrialization programmes.
She has a good knowledge of project and infrastructure financing having spent over 12 years originating, structuring and funding transactions across African countries in collaboration with local and regional financial institutions, international banks as well as regional and international Development Finance Institutions (DFIs)/Multilateral Finance Institutions (MFIs).
Ms. Doherty is an alumnus of the IMD Business School, Lausanne, Switzerland; University of Leicester, United Kingdom; and Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun State, Nigeria. She is also a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN).