George Elombi

Dr. George Elombi

George Elombi is a Cameroonian legal and banking executive who has served as President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the African Export-Import Bank since October 2025. He joined Afreximbank in 1996 and advanced through its legal, governance and corporate-services leadership.

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About George Elombi

Profile information current to 2026-08-22.

Cameroon · Legal and banking executive, Law lecturer · 2 affiliations

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Known for: Leadership of Afreximbank; Bank governance, legal and corporate services
Country: Cameroon

Legal and banking executive
Law lecturer

At a glance

Elombi became Afreximbank's President and Chairman of the Board of Directors on October 25, 2025.
He joined Afreximbank as a Legal Officer in October 1996 and later led its governance, legal and corporate-services functions.
Afreximbank identifies him as its fourth President and Chairman since the institution was established in 1993.
As chair of Afreximbank's Emergency Response Committee, he led a COVID-19 response that the Bank says mobilised more than US$2 billion for vaccine acquisition and deployment across African and Caribbean countries.

Legal education and academic work

Elombi holds a Maîtrise-en-Droit from the University of Yaoundé, an LL.M. from the London School of Economics, University of London, and a Ph.D. in commercial arbitration from the University of London. Before entering Afreximbank, he worked as a full-time law lecturer at the University of Hull in the United Kingdom.

Career at Afreximbank

Elombi joined Afreximbank as a Legal Officer in October 1996. On April 1, 2015, he became Executive Vice President for Corporate Governance and Legal Services while continuing as Executive Secretary. Official Afreximbank publications agree on his progression but differ on the precise titles and dates of some intermediate roles before 2015.

Afreximbank presidency

Afreximbank shareholders appointed Elombi as the institution's next President and Chairman at their annual general meeting in Abuja on June 28, 2025. He was sworn in as the Bank's fourth President and Chairman in Cairo on October 25, 2025, and Afreximbank's management and board pages listed him in that office as of August 22, 2026.

Affiliations

African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) President and Chairman of the Board of Directors 2025-10-25–present
University of Hull Full-time law lecturer

Timeline

1989 Obtained a Maîtrise-en-Droit from the University of Yaoundé.
1996-10 Joined Afreximbank as a Legal Officer.
2015-04-01 Became Executive Vice President for Corporate Governance and Legal Services while continuing as Executive Secretary.
2025-06-28 Appointed by Afreximbank shareholders as the Bank's next President and Chairman of the Board of Directors at its annual general meeting in Abuja, Nigeria.
2025-10-25 Sworn in as Afreximbank's fourth President and Chairman in Cairo, Egypt.

Additional verified details

Current context

Afreximbank's management and board pages list Dr. George Elombi as President and Chairman of the Board of Directors. The effective date reflects Afreximbank's reported October 25, 2025 investiture; the institutional webpages do not state their own last-updated dates.

Biographical facts

Afreximbank identifies Elombi as a Cameroonian national.
Afreximbank states that Elombi holds an LL.M. from the London School of Economics, University of London; a Ph.D. in commercial arbitration from the University of London; and a Maîtrise-en-Droit from the University of Yaoundé.
Before joining Afreximbank, Elombi worked as a full-time law lecturer at the University of Hull in the United Kingdom.
Afreximbank identified Elombi as the fourth President and Chairman in the Bank's history since its establishment in 1993.
Afreximbank states that, as chair of its Emergency Response Committee, Elombi led the Bank's COVID-19 response, which mobilised more than US$2 billion for vaccine acquisition and deployment across African and Caribbean countries.