Less than a week after beginning my journey as a Chief Economist of Government (CEoG) Presidential Fellow, I found myself standing on the factory floor of one of Nigeria's largest indigenous manufacturing companies in Kano. I was part of the delegation accompanying the Special Adviser to the President on Finance and the Economy on a visit to the Mamuda Group of Companies. As we toured the production lines, conversations moved seamlessly from exchange-rate reforms and energy costs to access to...

From May 26 – 23, 2023, fifteen chief economic advisors to African heads of the executive and five former advisors met in Pretoria, South Africa, for deliberations and peer-learning around the theme Building Resilient African Economies in an Uncertain World. This years’ forum was co-hosted by Trudi Makhaya, outgoing economic advisor to President Ramaphosa of South Africa, and the World Bank Africa Chief Economist Andrew Dabalen. We were joined by Prof Stefan Dercon from Oxford University,...

The Upright Economist Former governor of Tanzania’s central bank, the Bank of Tanzania, Prof. Benno Ndulu or Benno, as he was commonly...