Bunmi Malik has over 18 years’ experience in financial services and legal practice. With a strong educational background in Law from the University of Ibadan, as well as a Masters in Law and Business from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Wharton Business School, she has developed competence in corporate governance, legal risk management, regulatory compliance and financial crime governance.
She is currently Principal, Conduct, Financial Crime, and Compliance Governance for Nigeria & West Africa at Standard Chartered Bank, with responsibilities for managing compliance risks through adherence to regulatory requirements, risk assessments, policy development, training, monitoring and reporting as well as the promotion of ethical conduct. She works with a team of experts in ensuring the bank’s adherence to the highest ethical and regulatory standards in a complex and dynamic environment.
Other leadership roles undertaken by Bunmi include the Head of Governance, Africa at United Bank for Africa Plc where she had responsibility for corporate governance alignment and institutionalisation across 19 subsidiaries in West, Central, East and Southern Africa. She also served concurrently as the Deputy, Group Company Secretary of the Bank.
In addition to her Pan-African experience, she started her career at Babalakin & Co., and further worked at the international law firm of Crowell & Moring and C&M International, a global government relations, public policy and public affairs firm in Washington DC. Bunmi was selected as the first African in their visiting international scholar programme designed to expose foreign attorneys to legal practice in the US to facilitate strategic partnerships with international law firms and companies. She also had a stint in the compliance division of UBS Investment Bank in Stamford and New York, analysing the regulatory requirements under the Dodd-Frank Act.
Bunmi is an advocate for gender equality and serves as a non-executive director on the Global board of BOMA, an international NGO focused on last mile populations of the drylands of Africa in alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals on ending poverty, eradicating hunger, combating gender equality and mitigating the effects of climate change. She also supports the Mother & Girl Child Protection Initiative, an NGO promoting the advancement of women and the education of girls through vocational training.
Bunmi is called to the bar in Nigeria and New York State and was recently selected to participate in the regional summer academy Africa program by the International Anti-Corruption Academy. She is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and was awarded by ‘Diligent’ as an Influencial GRC Leader in 2021 in the digital innovation category.
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