Tariye Gbadegesin

Tariye Gbadegesin is the Managing Director and Chief investment officerof ARM Harith Infrastructure Investment Limited (ARM-Harith), a specialist infrastructure fund established by Asset & Resource Management Company Limited in Nigeria and Harith General Partners Proprietary Limited in South Africa.
An investment professional with over 20 years of experience in finance, principal investments and infrastructure, she has mobilized over US$3 billion of capital for infrastructure projects in Africa. Tariye's written opinions on how Africa can achieve economic growth and development without contributing to further global warming, de-risking infrastructure investments on the continent, and how it can take its place in global lithium-ion battery production are in the public domain.
Early life and career
Tariye Gbadegesin holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from Amherst College, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Her international experience includes roles at the International Monetary Fund], the Boston Consulting Group, Chase Manhattan Bank and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
She was on the founding team to establish the Africa Finance Corporation, a pan African Development Finance Institution focused on infrastructure, industrials and energy with US$6 billion under management. As its Head of Heavy Industries and Telecommunications from January 2015 to March 2020, she led the finance institution's US$800 million Industrial and Telecommunications Infrastructure business.
Tariye has also served on boards of several large scale infrastructure projects in Africa; Amandi IPP a 200MW dual-fuel combine cycle power plant in Ghana, Main One Cable Company, a Pan-African sub-sea and ICT company and has served on the board of Cabeolica S.A, a Cabo Verdean wind power IPP.
On October 19, 2020, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) announced her as one of its 25 Advisory Council members for the 2020-2022 term. In February 2021, she was appointed to both the United Nations PRI Advisory Committee, and the United Nations Technical Working Group on Finance and Investment.
ARM-Harith
In March 2020, ARM-Harith announced the appointment of Tariye Gbadegesin as Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer. The fund completed the exit and return distribution of its Azura-Edo Independent Power Project investment in 2020. It also supports port and hybrid-energy projects in the ports, as well as climate-conscious urban and industrial infrastructure in West Africa.

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