• He is a Nigerian economist and philanthropist. He chairs Heirs Holdings, Transcorp, United Bank for Africa (UBA) and is the founder of The Tony Elumelu Foundation.
• Anthony Onyemaechi Elumelu was born in Jos, Plateau, Nigeria, on March 22, 1963, to Suzanne and Dominic Elumelu from Onicha-Ukwu in Aniocha North local government area of Delta State.
• He studied Economics at Bendel State University (now Ambrose Alli University). Afterward, he studied and received a Master of Science degree in Economics at the University of Lagos.
• Following the merger of Standard Trust Bank and United Bank for Africa in 2005, Elumelu led the company as Group Managing Director from a single-country banking group to a pan-African bank with subsidiaries in 20 African countries, France, the U.S and the U.K, eventually stepping down in 2010.
• In 2010, he founded Heirs Holdings, his family-owned investment holding company. Elumelu also established in the same year the Tony Elumelu Foundation, an Africa-based foundation championing entrepreneurship in Africa.
• In 2020, Tony Elumelu, a man with strong passion for book reading, was named on Time’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
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