FEMI ADEWOLE M.Sc MBA MRICS HonFNIOB
Femi Adewole is a housing finance professional and architect with over 34 years experience in housing finance, development and project management. He has recently retired as the founding Managing Director at the Family Homes Funds Ltd – a Nigeria focussed affordable housing development and finance company working towards delivering up to 300000 homes.
Prior to joining the Family Homes Funds, he was Ag. Managing Director at Shelter Afrique, the Nairobi-based Pan African Housing Development and Finance Institution He has has also held Director positions in some of the largest housing companies in the United Kingdom including Notting Hill Housing Group – one of London’s largest affordable housing provider with responsibility for over 1500 staff where he was Group Operations Director and the Guinness Partnership where he was Investment Director.
Femi’s current focus is developing afro-centric housing and infrastructure finance solutions which address the unique context of predominatly low income and informal economies in Sub-Sahara Africa. In that regard, he has in the last year led the team at Family Homes Funds to develop a home ownership programme which has received financing approval for US$60m from the African Development Bank. The team also tapped the Nigeria Capital Market for the first Sukuk Bond for affordable housing to raise up to US$73m.
He is currently Lead Consultant at Urban Economics International advising public and private sector based clients on Urban Infrastructure Projects.