Olawale (Wale) has a background in merchant banking, corporate finance, economics and international finance at both national and international levels. Wale is the current Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy for Nigeria.

He is a former Chair of ChapelHillDenham Group, Lagos, a leading investment bank. He was an executive director of Lagos merchant bank, Investment Banking & Trust Company Limited, now Stanbic IBTC. Wale is the founder and Chair of Lagos Boxing Hall of Fame, a registered not for profit organisation that runs amateur boxing in Lagos in conjunction with the Lagos Amateur Boxing Association. He is also the Chair of Livewell Initiative, a not for profit organisation that specialises in health literacy advocacy and practical training in Nigeria, and a Trustee of Sisters Unite for Children, a not for profit institution that focuses on helping street children in Lagos. Wale is the president of Repton, a long-established amateur boxing club based in London's East End.

Mr Edun is Chair of the International Council.