Dr Jubril Adeojo
Strategic Adviser (Climate Finance and Economics)
Dr Jubril Adeojo is a strategy adviser to the Climate Finance and Economics practice.
He is chief executive officer at SMEFUNDS Capital Limited, an impact investment and financial advisory company operating across Sub-Saharan Africa, and has extensive professional experience covering investment and commercial banking, climate and green financing, development finance, blended finance, tech startup investing, business coaching, project finance, corporate finance, economics, strategic planning, agriculture finance, climate and sustainable energy finance, agribusiness, enterprise development, community development, financial inclusion and livelihoods co-creation and security, and fundraising.
He has worked for Nigerian commercial and investment banks, one of the big four auditing firms, and a couple of advisory services to bilateral and multilateral development agencies on climate finance and sustainability finance matters in alignment with the Nationally Determined Contributions of different African countries under the Paris Agreement for Climate Change.
Among the programmes that Jubril has championed was the issuance of the first ever corporate green sukuk in Africa. He also designed the $5-billion Green Finance Sector Credit Facility Programme for the African Development Bank. He serves as the senior fund adviser to the setting up of the $10-billion Nigeria Climate Change Fund.
Jubril is a certified climate impact finance expert from the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. He holds a PhD in Development Finance and Community Development from the Da Vinci Institute for Technology Management, a master’s in Strategic Finance from Oxford Brookes University, and a bachelor’s in Business Administration from the University of Hertfordshire.
