Alex Otti 
Saving the Future 
Economic Development & Prosperity

Saving the Future is an urgent wake-up call to a new generation of leaders to rise to the historic challenge to save Nigeria and to retreat from the wasteful, destructive trajectory we have stumbled along over the decades. It is filled with golden nuggets of insights from the world of business, high finance and economic science. It diagnoses Nigerias manifold national maladies as: corruption, waste, poor governance, failure of the rule of law, the infrastructure deficit, weak property rights and the poor business environment.

The author demonstrates an uncommon understanding of world economics and the structural parameters of 21st century integrated digital industrial civilization. He strongly believes that if the right things are done to put the house in order, the future of Nigeria can still be saved.

About the author

: Dr. Alex Otti OFR is a celebrated banking prodigy. He graduated from the University of Port Harcourt with a First Class honours degree in Economics in 1988. He was the overall best graduating student and the valedictorian for the year. He subsequently received an MBA from the University of Lagos in 1994.

Dr Otti started his banking career in 1989 with the Nigeria International Bank Limited, a subsidiary of Citibank New York. In 1996, he moved to the United Bank for Africa Plc as Head, Corporate Banking Sector, South. In the year 2001, he joined First Bank of Nigeria PLC as Assistant General Manager and was appointed Executive Director, Commercial Banking in September 2005. On March 1, 2011, Dr. Alex Otti assumed duties as the Group Managing Director/CEO of Diamond Bank Plc. He led Diamond Bank through a successful transformation that saw the bank becoming one of the eight Systemically Important Banksin Nigeria.

Dr. Otti has served in various capacities on boards of various institutions and companies. He is an Alumnus of the Harvard Business School and also trained at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, California, Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania and Columbia Business School, Columbia University, New York and Insead, Fontainebleau, France. Dr. Alex Otti is active on the international speaking circuit especially on the subjects of Banking and Finance, Leadership, Management, Financial Inclusion to mention but a few. He writes a fortnightly column, Outside the Box in Thisday Newspapers in Nigeria.

Towards the end of 2014, driven by patriotic zeal and his abiding desire to contribute more directly to the overall socio-economic and political transformation of his beloved Abia State, Dr. Alex Otti took a monumental decision: he quit his exalted post of the Group CEO of Diamond Bank PLC to run for the office of the Executive Governor of Abia State in the 2015 general elections. Dr. Alex Otti is married and is blessed with three lovely children.