DR. OLADIMEJI ALO ,FCIPM President

Dr. Alo holds a doctorate degree with specialization in Industrial Sociology obtained from the University of Ife, Ile-Ife in 1984. He started his career at his alma mater, where he worked as an academic staff for a total of seven years.  He joined the firm of Price Waterhouse Association in 1985 to begin a career in management consulting.  He later joined the firm of Coopers & Lybrand Associates in 1987 where he garnered a total of nine years experience, serving in various capacities.  He left the services of the film as an Executive Director and Head of the HR Consulting Practice in 1995.  In 1992, he served as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA), USA Currently, he is the Director-General/Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Institutions Training Centre, a position he assumed in January, 1996. Dr. Alo has been involved in rendering consulting services in Organization and Human Resource Management to a wide variety of business organizations.  A member of several professional bodies, he was the President of the West African Bankers’ Association (WABA) in 1998/1999, the Vice President, Nigerian Association of Management Consulting (NAMCON) from 1993 – 2000.  He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria and was elected the President of the Institute in March, 2007.  In addition, Dr. Alo is the Chairman of the Investigation Panel of the Ethics and Professionalism Sub-Committee of the Nigeria Bankers’ Committee.  He is also a member of the National Executive Council of the Chartered Institute of Bankers’ of Nigeria, and the Governing Council of the Nigeria Capital Market Institute. Dr. Alo has written and published several articles and contributed chapters in management books.  He is the author of the book Human Resource Management in Nigeria (1999) and the editor of the book Issues in Corporate Governance (2003). He is married and blessed with three children.