Dr. Victor Inim is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Accounting. Prior to joining the University, he worked with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for 3 decades in various departments including Research and Statistics, Bank Examination, Financial Policy & Regulation and Capacity Development. He was the pioneer Secretary of the Bank’s Inter-Departmental Committee on Money Laundering, Advance Fee Fraud and other Financial Crimes and was also the Project Lead for the implementation of three of the Bank’s major projects in the Nigerian Banking industry – Fit & Proper Persons Regime, Competency Framework and Sustainability Banking Principles. In the former capacity, he represented the Bank effectively in various Federal Government Inter-Agency Committees on Economic and Financial Crimes, while in the latter capacity, he also represented the Bank effectively in the Competency Framework Sub-committee of the Bankers Committee. He was the Head, CBN International Training Institute, a position he held until he retired meritoriously as Director from the Bank in 2018 through its early retirement scheme.
In addition to his banking experience, Dr. Inim acquired several years of teaching and research experience in various institutions of higher learning including the Federal University of Uyo (formerly University of Cross River State) before joining the CBN. Even while in the CBN, he taught on part time basis for University of Uyo and University of Calabar in their Lagos Satellite/outreach campuses and served as Lecturer/Examiner for the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria. Dr. Inim holds Ph.D. (Banking & Finance); MBA (Finance); B.Sc./M.Sc. (Econ) and is a Fellow of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria as well as a member of various other professional bodies including Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers, Nigeria Economic Society and Academy of Management, Nigeria.
