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Please Meet President Buhari’s New Economic Management Team Members

1. Prof. Doyin Salami – Chairman
Senior lecturer at Lagos Business School where he leads sessions in the economic environment of business. Also served as director of programmes for five years until January 2005.

Mr. Salami is a doctoral degree graduate of Queen Mary College, University of London. His research interests include corporate long-term financial management; macroeconomic policy; corporate competitiveness and risk management; & characteristics of small and medium enterprises.

He served as member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria and had been a member of the Federal Government’s Economic Management Team.

2. Bismarck J. Rewane is the MD/CEO of Financial Derivatives Co Ltd in Lagos. He has more than 30 years of experience as Economist, Banker & Financial Analyst. He is a Chartered member of the Institute of Bankers of England & Wales & a Fellow of The Nigerian Institute of Bankers.

3. Chukwuma C. Soludo was the former CBN governor, born on 28th July, 1960, and hails from Aguata Local Govt Area of Anambra State. After his secondary school education, he proceeded to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he graduated with a first class degree in Economics.

He also undertook his postgraduate and doctorate degrees in Economics from the same University winning on both occasions, the prize for the best graduating student. A professor, had cumulative 4 years of post-doctoral training in some of the world’s most prestigious institutions,

including: The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC; University of Cambridge, UK, as Smuts Research Fellow and Fellow of the Wolfson College; the UN Economic Commission for Africa as a Post-Doctoral Fellow; University of Warwick as a Visiting scholar and Visiting Research.....

Scholar at Center for African Economies, University of Oxford (with funding by the Rhodes committee). He also attended over a dozen specialized courses and has had extensive research, teaching and consultancy works in different areas of economics.

Soludo worked at the World Bank both as a short and long-term consultant since 1993 and also at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa.

4. Sheu Yahaya, prior to his appointed as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Development Bank of Nigeria Plc (DBN) in March 2017, Mr Yahaya was the Bank’s Interim Managing Director.

Yahaya has an outstanding career in Academia and Development Finance, having held several management and executive roles, including Executive Director at the African Development Bank and member, Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Nigeria.

Before joining the African Development Bank, Sheu served as Deputy General Manager at Nigeria Export-Import Bank. He was a lecturer in Macroeconomics at the Department of Economics in University of Sussex, UK and Head of Economics Department in Bayero University kano, Nigeria.

5. Ode Ojowu (born August 16, 1948) is a Nigerian economics professor and a former Chief Executive of the National Planning Commission. He was also Chief Economic Adviser to Former President Olusegun Obasanjo between 2004 and 2005.

Ojowu held positions at the International Monetary Bank, the World Bank, and the United Nations Development Programme. He was a professor of economics at the University of Jos. In 2008 Ojowu was appointed head of the governing council of the Benue State University.

6. Mr Sagagi has a Certificate Course in Making Markets Work for the Poor from Springfield Center, Durham UK; PhD (Economics) from University of Warwick, Coventry, England (1985) with thesis on Commercial Policy and Industrialization in Nigeria;

and M Sc. (Economics) from the University of Warwick, Coventry, England (1981). He bagged his B Sc. in Economics with First Class Hons. from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria in 1977. He serves as Political Economy and Govt Relations Adviser at a DFID-funded Programme ....

on Skills Development and Entrepreneurship (Mafita) in Northern Nigeria. He is an Economist and Development Consultant with a strong academic background and extensive private sector experience in Nigeria.

His expertise and ability to carry out research, conduct diagnostic studies, design interventions as well as formulate practical development strategies. According to his details, he has interests in political economy and sustainability of interventions-

and play crucial roles in ensuring that Political Economy and sustainability issues are (a) integral to design and (b) part of the day-to-day management of all interventions. He has participated in a number of Federal, State and Local Governments of Nigeria reform programmes.

7. Salisu Mohammed, was born in 1959 in Mamudo, Potiskum LGA, Yobe State. He is married with 3 children. He bagged PhD in Economics from Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom (1990). His thesis was titled Oil Exports and the Nigerian Economy: An Econometric Study.

He also bagged MSc degree in Economics from University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Nigeria in1986 and BSc (FIRST CLASS HONS) in Economics also from University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Nigeria, in 1982.

8. IYABO MASHA is a global economist with a demonstrated history of working in central banking and financial markets, economic management, international lending, finance and development. Strong focus on macroeconomic stabilization policy research and implementation.

She worked at Central Bank of Nigeria’s Research Dept between 1998 & 2003. She also worked with the World Bank between 1997 and 1998 as well as the IRIS Center, University of Maryland at College Park as a consultant. She is the immediate past IMF Representative for Sierra Leone.

She also ensures that key economic and financial policy reforms are focused on fiscal & debt sustainability; foreign reserve adequacy; improving the transmission mechanism of monetary policy; achieving depth, safety and soundness in the financial sector; & managing capital flow.

She has worked with the IMF since 2003 in Washington D.C. Metro Area. According to her, the assignments in more than 10 emerging markets (Asian and African countries) focus on comprehensive economic management including: (i) policy reform advisory services and dialogue with......

governments (ii) financing and lending programs; (iii) analytic research and economic modeling and forecasting. Specifically, she helps design for national governments and central banks, implementable solutions specific to their circumstance.