Prof. Abel E. Ezeoha
Director, AE-FUNAI Business School
Abel Ezeoha is currently a full-time Professor of Finance and the Director of FUNAI Business School at Alex Ekwueme University, Ndufu-Alike. He was the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Administration) of the University from September 2021 to September 2025. He has a PhD (2008) in Finance from the University of Nigeria. His other academic qualifications include a postgraduate Diploma and a Master's in Banking and Finance from the University of Nigeria Enugu Campus, a Higher National Diploma in Business Administration from the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT) Enugu, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of Ibadan. He had post-doctoral research training in Economics and Economic History at Rhodes University, South Africa, between 2010 and 2011 (under the Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship). Before November 2019, when he joined Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike, he held a parallel appointment as a full-time Senior Lecturer (and later a full professor) in the Department of Banking and Finance and the Department of Economics, Ebonyi State University. He also worked as a Senior Consultant at Prudential Trust Company Ltd., Lagos, Nigeria.
Prof. Ezeoha has won several research grants and fellowships, including, among others, a CODESRIA Advanced Research Fellow (2009/2010); a visiting fellow of the Africa Studies Centre, Leiden University, the Netherlands (2015 & 2018); and a Hobart Houghton Research Fellow in the Department of Economics and Economic History, Rhodes University, South Africa (2011 & 2019). Currently (March 2026 to date), Ezeoha serves as a Sector Lead (Financial Services Sector) in a national study being implemented by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) on the Impact of Digital Technologies on the Economy of Nigeria. He is a fellow of the African Institute for Health Policy & Health Systems, a member of the Capital Market Academics, an honorary member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, and the former president of the Accounting and Finance Research Association. He has over two decades of professional experience in teaching, research, and policy analysis. His core areas of research interest, in which he has published extensively, include finance, governance, and institutions. His most recent book, titled “Beneath the Rubble: Nigercem – The No. 1 Portland Cement!”, published by Snaap Press Enugu, is a non-fictional political and economic history of the Nigerian Cement Company Plc., Nkalagu (the pioneer cement industry in Nigeria and in West Africa).
