Sola Obadimu took over as the Administrative head of the NACCIMA Secretariat on the 1st of September 2022.
Before this appointment, he was the Director-General of the Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce (NACC).
With a rich background in the management of membership-
based institutions he had served, at various times, as the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Society of Engineers; Director-General of the Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce; Founding Executive Secretary at the Nigerian-South African Chamber of Commerce and Acting Director-General of the Institute of Directors, Nigeria (IoD).
Sola Obadimu is a seasoned institutional administrator and is respected within the public/private sector circles in Nigeria.
In 2008, Sola served as a part-time Investment Promotion & Business Development Consultant for the UNDP/Columbia University’s Millennium City Initiatives (MCI) project geared towards attracting foreign direct investment to Africa.
Obadimu holds a B.Sc in Chemical Engineering, an MBA as well as an M.Sc. Economics, all from the University of Lagos.
Sola Obadimu is a regular public opinion contributor in several Nigerian publications and has made several management/trade development presentations at seminars and other fora.
Obadimu has been a beneficiary of several Top Executive Management and Leadership courses globally and he is an Executive Education alumnus of Harvard Business School (HBS), McDonough Business School of Georgetown University, Washington, (USA);. He has also attended courses at Cambridge University Judge Business School and the Manchester University Business School (MBS) in the United Kingdom
Sola Obadimu is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors, Nigeria (IoD); Fellow, of the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM); Fellow, of the Nigerian Society of Engineers and a Member of various other professional bodies.
