Toyin Olakunri

Chief (Mrs) Olutoyin Olakunri (OFR) (November 4, 1937 - June 3, 2018) was a Nigerian accountant, philanthropist and businesswoman who was the first female chartered accountant in Africa. In 2000, President Obasanjo appointed her as head of the Education Trust Fund. She was president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria between 1994 and 1995.

Olakunri played a foundation role in the establishment of the Society of Woman Accountants of Nigeria.

Olakunri graduated from the University of Birmingham, and did her article-ship with the City of London and Dorset & Co before qualifying as an accountant in 1963. She married her second husband, Simeon Moronfolu Olakunri around 1965. She had seven children.

Career She then moved back to Nigeria and joined the office of Peat Marwick Cassleton Elliot and Co.

In 1977, Olakunri was nominated as a member of the 1977 Constituent Assembly, a gathering of Nigerians to deliberate on a new democratic constitution. A year later, she and fellow female members of ICAN, co-founded the Society of Women Accountants of Nigeria, a body to protect the interest of female accountants in Nigeria.

Olakunri was a founding director of Eko International Bank and Gateway Bank, the former was partly owned by the Lagos State government and the later by Ogun State government.