PhD Candidates

Oluranti Doherty

Oluranti Doherty is a Nigerian national residing in Egypt, where she serves as Managing Director, Export Development, at the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) in Cairo. She provides strategic direction for the Bank’s export development activities, leading initiatives that support industrialisation, export manufacturing and export services across Africa.

Her responsibilities include overseeing the development of industrial parks, innovation and technology parks, special economic zones, quality assurance centres and medical centres of excellence. She also oversees export-related project financing and works with governments, development finance institutions and strategic partners to strengthen national export competitiveness. In addition, she leads financing and capacity-building initiatives that support African SMEs in meeting international standards and participating in national, regional and global value chains.

Oluranti holds an MSc in Finance with Distinction from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom, and a BSc (Hons.) in Accounting with Second Class Upper honours from Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA) and has completed the Advanced High Performance Leadership Program at IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Her research focus is Development Studies.