Professor Nkemdilim Iheanachor is a member of the Strategy Group at Lagos Business School (LBS), where he also serves as the Academic Director of the Senior Management Programme, and course director on other executive and open-enrolment programmes. He is also a visiting lecturer on the MBA programme at the University of Stellenbosch’s Business School, Cape Town, South Africa.

Professor Iheanachor holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering, a Master of Business Administration degree, as well as an MPhil and a PhD in Management. He has attended fellowships and faculty development programmes at Harvard Business School, Wharton Business School, and Robinson College of Business.
He has extensively presented his research in international professional and academic conferences in the United States, Italy, Switzerland, Portugal, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Spain, Kenya, and Rwanda, to mention a few. He is a member of the worldwide Academy of Management and the Academy of Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Knowledge. As a member of the Academy of International Business, he sits on the executive committee as the treasurer of the African chapter. He also sits on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Governance and Financial Intermediation and Digital Economics and Innovation ESIC Journal.

Professor Iheanachor has had prior experience in banking as a Relationship Manager in the Multilateral, Conglomerates and Private Banking group of Zenith Bank and as an Investment Banker, where he was involved in Project Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions and financial advisory engagements and as a consultant, where he was involved in business advisory engagements for large multinationals and local corporates.

In the last ten years, Professor Iheanachor has consulted for well over one hundred private and public sector organisations in industries such as banking, insurance, pensions, telecommunications, consumer markets and retail all around Africa. Nkemdilim has extensively consulted in areas such as growth transformation, strategy execution, corporate restructuring, foreign subsidiary establishment, corporate strategy development, competitive strategy development and blue ocean strategy development.

Professor Iheanachor is a thought leader and active participant in the Nigerian Financial Inclusion Ecosystem. He leads the supply-side workstream of the Sustainable & Inclusive Digital Financial Services Initiative (SIDFS) at LBS, which aims to improve financial inclusion in Nigeria through research, capacity building, and stakeholder engagement. SIDFS is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). He has led different research programmes on adopting digital financial services (DFS) for financial inclusion.

He currently sits on the board of some private sector organisations and serves as a strategy mentor to several CEOs and top corporations.