Leadership profiles

Jude Uzonwanne is the Managing Partner of a boutique investment and advisory firm, TUG Capital Partners. Prior to that role, Mr. Uzonwanne worked extensively across the private, government and philanthropy sectors across the world.

He began his career at Monitor Company (now Monitor Deloitte) in strategy consulting. In that role, he advised various leaders on strategic choices designed to accelerate economic growth, deliver job creation and scale up enterprise profits. A deep believer in the primacy of markets, pragmatic regulation, and building system competitiveness, Mr. Uzonwanne has also worked in senior leadership roles for Bain & Company, EY Parthenon, IQVIA Inc., Overseas Shipholding Group, Nirsal Plc. and the Gates Foundation.

Mr. Uzonwanne has also worked as an adviser to several Nigerian federal Ministers and agency heads supervising key segments of the economy, in the process playing a role on various policy and regulatory issues. As a member of a Nigerian mining policy reform committee, he helped draft Nigeria’s mining strategy under the Buhari Administration. He has also supported economic reform initiatives in agriculture across the African continent including in Ghana, DRC, Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia. Mr. Uzonwanne is the author of The First Trillion, a 2024 book about the future of Nigeria, and by extension, the probability of a post-Berlin Conference Africa.