Olusola Adejoke David-Borha

Sola is currently a PhD candidate at SOAS University of London. Prior to this she served as Chief Executive - Africa Regions, Standard Bank Group with responsibility for 19 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa (excl.

 South Africa). Her career in the financial services industry included serving as Chief Executive of Standard Bank Group's Nigerian subsidiary - Stanbic IBTC Holdings. She currently sits as a Non-Executive Director (NED) on the board of Stanbic IBTC Holdings and is an Independent NED on the board of Coca-Cola HBC AG. 

Other roles that she has held include, former Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group, former Chairman of Stanbic IBTC Bank and an NED on the boards of Stanbic Uganda Holdings and Stanbic Bank Uganda. She served as Chairperson of the Private Investors for Africa (2018-2021) a business coalition of ethically like-minded companies that seeks to improve the business climate on the African Continent. She was named Business Woman of the Year for Africa at the CNBC All Africa Business Leaders Awards in 2016.

Sola David-Borha is a PhD candidate at SOAS, University of London. Her research interests are institutions, political economy, economic reform and policy outcomes, privatization, risk, rent, and governance. 

Her thesis examines the electricity sector and telecommunications sector privatizations in Nigeria from a political economy view. This research uses the Political Settlement framework to explore the differing sectoral outcomes for the two privatized sectors. It also looks at the enforcement capabilities of the sector regulators and its impact on pricing and efficiency.