{"id":14059,"date":"2017-03-06T16:34:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T15:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=14059"},"modified":"2017-04-19T15:07:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T14:07:35","slug":"ihemedu-emmanuel-umunna","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ihemedu-emmanuel-umunna\/","title":{"rendered":"IHEMEDU, Emmanuel Umunna"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date of Birth: Thursday (Nkwo) 15&#8243;&#8216; July, 1948 State of Origin: Imo Local Government Area: Owerri West Village\/Town: Orogwe Contact Address: 7, Lawrence Daniel Close Ajao Estate Isolo Local Government Area Lagos. Contact Address: 234-8022240095 Mr Emmanuel Umunna Ihemedu was born on Thursdav (Nkwo) 15&#8243;&#8216; Julv 1948 at Orogwe Town in Owerri West Local Government Area. He is deeplyinvolved in the Banking Sector and has attained the rank ofthe Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer within a record time. Hehas however had a long career in the industry. Education and Training \u2022 Government Technical Institute (G.T. I.) Enugu 1965WASC \u2022 University ofNigeria Nsukka, B.Sc. Econs. 2nd Class Hons Upper Division \u2022 Ibadan University, M.Sc. Banking and Finance 1991 Work Experience \u2022 Central Bank ofNigeria , assistant Economist, 1977 1979 \u2022 Savanah Bank ofNigeria Ltd 1979 1981 as Budget Office, \u2022 Assistant Manager, (Finance and Treasury 1982 1985) \u2022 Senior Manager 1986 1990 \u2022 Leave ofAbsence 1990 1992 \u2022 Principal Manager 1992- -1994 \u2022 Assistant General Manager, (Corporate Development\/Planning) \u2022 Deputy General Manager Banking Operations 1997 1999 \u2022 Ag. General Manager\/Chief Executive, Nov 1999 2000 \u2022 Voluntary Retirement 2001 \u2022 Consultant to many others on retirement \u2022 Currently, took up appointment as Executive Director of Assurance Bank, the position he is still holding, but later appointed the Managing Director\/Chief Executive Officer. Other Services to Society \u2022 Chairman Editorial Board Savan-News, an In-house Quarterly Magazine of Savannah Bank 1989 2000 \u2022 Chairman, Investment Committee Pensions Fund 1989 1991 \u2022 Secretary and Member, Special Think Tank Committee 1989 \u2022 Secretary Board Committee on Re-Organisation of Savannah Bank Nigeria 1990 \u2022 Secretary and Member, Budget Monitoring Committee 1995 1997 \u2022 Secretary Assets and Liability Management Committee ( ALCO) 1995 1997) \u2022 He was also the Chairman &#8211; Pension Fund Trust Board as well as Chairman Disciplinary Committee Courses and Conferences Management Development Programme sponsored by Peat Marwick &#038; Co. 1982 Nigerian Institute of Management MBO Adviser, 1982 Participantin the Corporate Strategy for Directors organisedby the Nigerian Institute of Management(NIM) Seminaron Corporate Planning and assistants of Bank Performance organised by Financial Institution Training Centre (FITC) December 1983 National Conferenceon the DomesticMarketand FundsMobilization for Economic Recovery October 1984,organized by Securities and Exchange Commission Attended the course on Advanced Financial Accountingsponsoredby Bank of America , Hong Kong 1985 Banking Operations Course for Senior Management Staff organized by FITC October, 1988 Manpower Planning Workshop by The COOPERS and Lybrand January 1988 NCR MasterCard\/Visa seminar on Africa and Frontiers in Abidjan Chartered Institutes of Bankers ofNigeria with Manchester Business School, London courseon Strategic Bank Marketing 1990 Financial Markets andMyrrill Lynch London sponsored Portfolio Management andAsset Selection in which MrIhemedu participated. ParticipatedAccounts and Management Course organised by the Forum Corporation of USA\/ICON Ltd ( Merchant Bankers, 1992) National Economic Reconstruction FundNERFUND seminaron Advanced Projectand Appraisal 1993 FITC Programme on Advanced Corporate Finance and Investment Banking Nov 1993 Operations of ATMS Course in July 2000 by TIDEL, Texas USA Giesecke and Devrient, Munich Germany , Austria and Netherlands training in Card Business andTechnology July August 2000 Mr Ihemedu is happily married with children. He has hisrole model as ChiefG.C. Okonkwo whom hesees as a man of integrity and honesty whose humility he upholds greatly. Hisadvice to the Igbo Youths is: &#8220;take education more seriously, it is thekey to meal ticket&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,2404,2403,178],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-14059","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-banker","category-economist","category-professional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/14059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14059"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=14059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}