SPEAKER
Dr. Muntaqa Umar-Sadiq
Dr. Muntaqa Umar-Sadiq has over 17 years of varied experience in public health, impact investing, investment banking, and energy and climate financing. He is currently the National Coordinator of the Sector-Wide Approach Coordination Office.
He started his career as a healthcare investment banker at Morgan Stanley in the U.K., specialising in the Healthcare & Pharmaceutical sector. He then took on roles such as Head of the Performance Management and Delivery Unit at the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, CEO of the Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria, Head of the Nigeria Energy Transition Office, and Private Sector Engagement Adviser at the World Bank. Muntaqa was also the Senior Technical Advisor to the former Honourable Minister of State for Health in Nigeria, Dr. Muhammad Ali Pate, leading several significant healthcare reform initiatives.
Dr. Umar Sadiq is currently pursuing a doctorate in public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He holds an M.Phil in Bioscience Enterprise from the University of Cambridge and an MBBS degree from Imperial College, London. He is also a Chartered Alternatives Investment Analyst (CAIA) charter holder.
The World Economic Forum recognised Dr. Muntaqa as a Young Global Leader and selected him as a 2018 Eisenhower Innovation Fellow, honouring his outstanding and innovative leadership in efforts to improve the world.