If there's anyone that knows professor Soludo deep down, it is former president Obasanjo. Obasanjo brought Soludo from where he was consulting for world bodies in America, Europe, Asia, etc, to serve in his government.
Listen to what Obasanjo had to say about his former employees, professor Chukwuma Soludo.
It was Obasanjo that first used the term "the Soludo solution"
Selected International Appointments and Consultancies
•Founder/Chairman, Board of Directors, Africa Finance Corporation—AFC-- (2007 - 2009). Africa Finance Corporation commenced with capitalization of US$1.1 billion as Africa’s private sector-led Investment Bank.
•Member, United Nations Commission of Experts on the Global Economic and Financial Crisis (2008-09)—appointed by the President of UN General Assembly and committee chaired by Professor Joseph Stiglitz.
•As Governor of Central Bank, was Alternate Governor at the IMF and World Bank Board of Governors (2004- 2009)
•Member, Chief Economist Advisory Council, The World Bank (since 2006)
• Member, UK- DFID International Advisory Group, 2005—2008
• Member, World Economic Forum, 2004---
• Member, Advisory Board, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, USA. Since 2002
• Senior Economic Advisor/Coordinator of programmes in Nigeria: Chemonics International, Inc., Washington, DC (2001- 2002)
•Coordinator, IDRC Regional Project on the “Political Economy of Trade Policy and Industrialization in Africa”: 1999- 2001. Project covered 8 country case studies-- South Africa, Mauritius, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Senegal, and Cote d'Ivoire.
•Coordinator (with Prof. Steve O'Connell of Swarthmore College, USA), 2000--2003: AERC's 'African Economic Growth Project', with an international steering committee, five thematic papers, and 30 country case studies. Output published in two volumes by the Cambridge University Press.
• Resource Person, African Economic Research Consortium, Nairobi: to evaluate research proposals, work-in-progress and final reports during its research workshops: 2001- 2003.
•Smuts' Research Fellow (October 1996- June 1997): University of Cambridge, U.K., and Member, Governing Board of the Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, and Visiting Faculty, Faculty of Economics and Politics.
•Visiting Research Scholar (Jan- June 1997- jointly with Cambridge fellowship:; and April-August 1994) Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford, U.K. Completed research papers, and presented seminars. Funding by Rhodes Research Committee.
•Visiting Scholar, International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC: various times since 1994. Regularly teach the ‘Financial Programming and Policy’ course for the IMF Institute
•Research Associate, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford, U.K., 1994--
•Research Associate, African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Nairobi: 1991----2000 (Undertook about 10 funded studies for the Consortium).
•Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (September 1992- October 1993): Socio-Economic Research and Planning Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UN-ECA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Produced two research reports and contributed actively to the research, seminar and other technical work of the Division.
•Visiting Research Fellow (January 1991- July 1992): Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC. Advanced training in multi-country macroeconometric modeling, and collaborated with R.C. Bryant in producing PCSIM version of IMF’s global model—MULTIMOD— and used the model in various studies. Participated actively in research, training, and workshop activities at the Brookings.
•National Coordinator/Secretary, National Working Groups’ Initiative on: Trade and Macroeconomic Policy; Infrastructure; Agriculture; Institutional and Regulatory Reforms; and Small and Medium Enterprises—with funding by the World Bank; DFID; USAID; January – December 2003.
•Lead consultant and coordinator, joint project of IBM Consulting Services, VA, USA and African Institute for Applied Economics, Enugu, on evaluation of USAID Economic Growth and Agriculture portfolio, November 2002- April 2003.
•Consultant, African Development Bank, October 2002- January 2003: to write paper on ‘Africa: Strategies for Coping with Globalization”, and Chapter One of the Africa Development Report, 2003.
•Consultant, EU/ECOWAS, October-November 2002, to conduct a study on “The Potential Impacts of Extending the UEMOA Common External Tariffs to other ECOWAS Countries: A case study of the impacts on Fiscal Revenue and Trade Balance in Nigeria”.
•Consultant, World Bank, April--August 2002, to co-author the Synthesis Report on the Evaluation of the Comprehensive Development Framework.
•Consultant, World Bank, October 2001- April 2002; to co-author (with Torgny Holmgren-- Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs) thematic paper on 'Country-led partnership in the context of the Comprehensive Development Framework'.
•Consultant, World Bank, July- September, 2002, to author a review of the 'International experiences on trade liberalization in Developing Countries'.
•Consultant, UN Secretariat, New York: February-March 2002: to write paper on the 'Evaluation of the Resource Flows to Africa During the Period of UN-NADAF, 1992- 2002'.
•Consultant: African Development Bank, Abidjan: January 2002: to write paper on 'Aid Relationships and Global Governance" and presented at ADB/OECD Centre seminar: Paris.
•Consultant: African Development Bank, Abidjan, October-December 2001: to write chapter One of African Development Report 2002.
•Consultant, UN-ECA, Addis Ababa: September 2001: to write paper on Nigerian Country Economic Report, 2001.
•Consultant, World Bank/GDN Network, 2001: co-authored a paper (with Jongil Kim-- South Korean) on "Survey of the Growth Models and Economic Performance in Developing Regions: Still More Questions than Answers".
•Consultant: July 2001; IMF Institute as Facilitator in the West African Regional Course on Financial Programming and Policy (July 16-28). Gave series of lectures on macroeconomics and policy issues, and organized technical workshop sessions to teach participants how to design a typical IMF financial programming.
•Consultant, USAID: April/May; July/August, 2000: Facilitator of training program for Nigerian government officials on ‘Macroeconomic Models, Analysis and Policy” The World Bank, Washington, DC. Course covered macroeconomic and sectoral accounting and interrelations among the accounts; consistency framework of the World Bank's RMSM-XX; Exchange Rate regimes; and forecasting techniques.
•Advisor/Reviewer, 2001/2002 World Development Report, Institutions for Markets. The World Bank. Also authored one of the Background papers.
•Consultant, UN Secretariat, New York, May- mid June 2000: to write a paper on 'Mobilization of Financial Resources for African Development'.
•Consultant, COMESA: May, 2000: to write paper on investment and competitiveness and as Guest Speaker to the COMESA council of ministers meeting in Mauritius
•Consultant, UNCTAD, Geneva: February/March 2000: to conduct study on ‘Financing Development in African LDCs’ and Resource person in the African Regional preparatory meeting for the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries.
•Consultant, UN-ECA, Addis Ababa: March 2000: member of Special Task Force to Evaluate the activities of the UN-IDEP, Dakar.
•Consultant/Technical Assistance Advisor, the IMF, Washington, DC: February 21-March 10, 2000: to lecture and lead workshops at the IMF Institute’s regional course on Financial Programming and Policy, Accra, Ghana.
•Consultant, The World Bank, Washington, DC: May 1999- February 2000: Long-term consultant to work on the “Africa in the 21st Century” project: the book entitled Can Africa Claim the 21st Century? (published May 2000 by The World Bank, was a collaborative effort by the AERC, ADB, ECA, GCA, and the World Bank.
•Consultant, African Economic Research Consortium, Nairobi: Commissioned to develop and teach a course to senior African economists on 'The Techniques of macroeconometric modeling': November/ December , 1999.
•Consultant, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Geneva: January 1999: to write a paper: "Towards A Regional Approach to Africa's Infrastructure Crisis'.
•Consultant, United Nations Secretariat, New York: March 1999: To write an Issues paper on the Recent Developments in African Economies and the Challenges Ahead’
•Consultant/Member- Advisory Committee (1998- 2003): African regional project on "New Social Knowledge for Africa: Module 1 'Africa's Real Economies'", CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal.
•Consultant and Team Leader, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, 15 September- 30 November, 1998: Led the team that produced the Economic Report on Africa 1999. My major contribution was in changing the framework ECA uses in analyzing the African economies. I developed the set of composite indices-- performance, policy stance, and sustainability indices (now popularly known as the ECA Indices, and being refined to serve as framework for monitoring African economies under NEPAD).
•Consultant, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)/UNOPS, New York, August- October 1998; to write a paper for the African Futures on Competitiveness, Abidjan
•Visiting Scholar/Consultant: August/September, 1998; International Monetary Fund (IMF) Institute, Washington, DC: Taught a course on ‘Economic Growth: theories and applications’, in a Senior Policy Seminar organized by the Institute.
•Consultant: March 1998; IMF Institute as Facilitator in the Regional Course on Financial Programming and Policy (March 9-27).
•Consultant, Economic and Social Policy Division, UN-Economic Commission for Africa: to prepare background/issues paper for Africa's participation in the TICAD II; as well as collaborated with two other resource persons in organizing a workshop on 'Economic Policy Analysis' for the staff of the ECA.: September-November, 1997.
•Visiting Scholar/consultant, (August-September 12, 1997); IMF Research Department, Washington, DC.
•Consultant, International Development Research Centre of Canada: November 1996- March 1997: To develop research proposal, and write a concept paper.
•Consultant, UNCTAD; 1997: To write research report on 'Trade Liberalization and Supply Responses in Africa'.
•Consultant, International Center for Economic Growth (ICEG), Africa Office, Nairobi: January-March 1997: to write a paper.
•Consultant, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA); June 1996- May 1997: Edited a book, and co-authored another: both books already published.
•Consultant, Development Centre, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Paris, France: June 1996- June 1997: Produced two technical papers.
•The Resource person in a 10-day training workshop on "Macroeconomic policy analysis for Regional integration" organized by the Organization of African Unity (OAU): OAU Secretariat, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; January 10- 19, 1996.
•Guest Scholar (July -September, 1995): Network of Empirical Research on International Macroeconomics (NERIM) Project, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC.
•Consultant, Research Department, IMF, January- March 1994: to "review the developing country sectors of MULTIMOD global model, with a view to developing 'Prototype Model Specifications for the African Sector of MULTIMOD' ".
•Consultant, Centre for Democratic Studies (CDS), Abuja, as Trainer of elected party officers, Enugu State, Nigeria: May 1990.
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film3four: If there's anyone that knows professor Soludo deep down, it is former president Obasanjo. Obasanjo brought Soludo from where he was consulting for world bodies in America, Europe, Asia, etc, to serve in his government.
Listen to what Obasanjo had to say about his former employees, professor Chukwuma Soludo.
It was Obasanjo that first used the term "the Soludo solution"
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Selected International Appointments and Consultancies
•Founder/Chairman, Board of Directors, Africa Finance Corporation—AFC-- (2007 - 2009). Africa Finance Corporation commenced with capitalization of US$1.1 billion as Africa’s private sector-led Investment Bank.
•Member, United Nations Commission of Experts on the Global Economic and Financial Crisis (2008-09)—appointed by the President of UN General Assembly and committee chaired by Professor Joseph Stiglitz.
•As Governor of Central Bank, was Alternate Governor at the IMF and World Bank Board of Governors (2004- 2009)
•Member, Chief Economist Advisory Council, The World Bank (since 2006)
• Member, UK- DFID International Advisory Group, 2005—2008
• Member, World Economic Forum, 2004---
• Member, Advisory Board, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, USA. Since 2002
• Senior Economic Advisor/Coordinator of programmes in Nigeria: Chemonics International, Inc., Washington, DC (2001- 2002)
•Coordinator, IDRC Regional Project on the “Political Economy of Trade Policy and Industrialization in Africa”: 1999- 2001. Project covered 8 country case studies-- South Africa, Mauritius, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Senegal, and Cote d'Ivoire.
•Coordinator (with Prof. Steve O'Connell of Swarthmore College, USA), 2000--2003: AERC's 'African Economic Growth Project', with an international steering committee, five thematic papers, and 30 country case studies. Output published in two volumes by the Cambridge University Press.
• Resource Person, African Economic Research Consortium, Nairobi: to evaluate research proposals, work-in-progress and final reports during its research workshops: 2001- 2003.
•Smuts' Research Fellow (October 1996- June 1997): University of Cambridge, U.K., and Member, Governing Board of the Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, and Visiting Faculty, Faculty of Economics and Politics.
•Visiting Research Scholar (Jan- June 1997- jointly with Cambridge fellowship:; and April-August 1994) Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford, U.K. Completed research papers, and presented seminars. Funding by Rhodes Research Committee.
•Visiting Scholar, International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC: various times since 1994. Regularly teach the ‘Financial Programming and Policy’ course for the IMF Institute
•Research Associate, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford, U.K., 1994--
•Research Associate, African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Nairobi: 1991----2000 (Undertook about 10 funded studies for the Consortium).
•Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (September 1992- October 1993): Socio-Economic Research and Planning Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UN-ECA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Produced two research reports and contributed actively to the research, seminar and other technical work of the Division.
•Visiting Research Fellow (January 1991- July 1992): Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC. Advanced training in multi-country macroeconometric modeling, and collaborated with R.C. Bryant in producing PCSIM version of IMF’s global model—MULTIMOD— and used the model in various studies. Participated actively in research, training, and workshop activities at the Brookings.
•National Coordinator/Secretary, National Working Groups’ Initiative on: Trade and Macroeconomic Policy; Infrastructure; Agriculture; Institutional and Regulatory Reforms; and Small and Medium Enterprises—with funding by the World Bank; DFID; USAID; January – December 2003.
•Lead consultant and coordinator, joint project of IBM Consulting Services, VA, USA and African Institute for Applied Economics, Enugu, on evaluation of USAID Economic Growth and Agriculture portfolio, November 2002- April 2003.
•Consultant, African Development Bank, October 2002- January 2003: to write paper on ‘Africa: Strategies for Coping with Globalization”, and Chapter One of the Africa Development Report, 2003.
•Consultant, EU/ECOWAS, October-November 2002, to conduct a study on “The Potential Impacts of Extending the UEMOA Common External Tariffs to other ECOWAS Countries: A case study of the impacts on Fiscal Revenue and Trade Balance in Nigeria”.
•Consultant, World Bank, April--August 2002, to co-author the Synthesis Report on the Evaluation of the Comprehensive Development Framework.
•Consultant, World Bank, October 2001- April 2002; to co-author (with Torgny Holmgren-- Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs) thematic paper on 'Country-led partnership in the context of the Comprehensive Development Framework'.
•Consultant, World Bank, July- September, 2002, to author a review of the 'International experiences on trade liberalization in Developing Countries'.
•Consultant, UN Secretariat, New York: February-March 2002: to write paper on the 'Evaluation of the Resource Flows to Africa During the Period of UN-NADAF, 1992- 2002'.
•Consultant: African Development Bank, Abidjan: January 2002: to write paper on 'Aid Relationships and Global Governance" and presented at ADB/OECD Centre seminar: Paris.
•Consultant: African Development Bank, Abidjan, October-December 2001: to write chapter One of African Development Report 2002.
•Consultant, UN-ECA, Addis Ababa: September 2001: to write paper on Nigerian Country Economic Report, 2001.
•Consultant, World Bank/GDN Network, 2001: co-authored a paper (with Jongil Kim-- South Korean) on "Survey of the Growth Models and Economic Performance in Developing Regions: Still More Questions than Answers".
•Consultant: July 2001; IMF Institute as Facilitator in the West African Regional Course on Financial Programming and Policy (July 16-28). Gave series of lectures on macroeconomics and policy issues, and organized technical workshop sessions to teach participants how to design a typical IMF financial programming.
•Consultant, USAID: April/May; July/August, 2000: Facilitator of training program for Nigerian government officials on ‘Macroeconomic Models, Analysis and Policy” The World Bank, Washington, DC. Course covered macroeconomic and sectoral accounting and interrelations among the accounts; consistency framework of the World Bank's RMSM-XX; Exchange Rate regimes; and forecasting techniques.
•Advisor/Reviewer, 2001/2002 World Development Report, Institutions for Markets. The World Bank. Also authored one of the Background papers.
•Consultant, UN Secretariat, New York, May- mid June 2000: to write a paper on 'Mobilization of Financial Resources for African Development'.
•Consultant, COMESA: May, 2000: to write paper on investment and competitiveness and as Guest Speaker to the COMESA council of ministers meeting in Mauritius
•Consultant, UNCTAD, Geneva: February/March 2000: to conduct study on ‘Financing Development in African LDCs’ and Resource person in the African Regional preparatory meeting for the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries.
•Consultant, UN-ECA, Addis Ababa: March 2000: member of Special Task Force to Evaluate the activities of the UN-IDEP, Dakar.
•Consultant/Technical Assistance Advisor, the IMF, Washington, DC: February 21-March 10, 2000: to lecture and lead workshops at the IMF Institute’s regional course on Financial Programming and Policy, Accra, Ghana.
•Consultant, The World Bank, Washington, DC: May 1999- February 2000: Long-term consultant to work on the “Africa in the 21st Century” project: the book entitled Can Africa Claim the 21st Century? (published May 2000 by The World Bank, was a collaborative effort by the AERC, ADB, ECA, GCA, and the World Bank.
•Consultant, African Economic Research Consortium, Nairobi: Commissioned to develop and teach a course to senior African economists on 'The Techniques of macroeconometric modeling': November/ December , 1999.
•Consultant, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Geneva: January 1999: to write a paper: "Towards A Regional Approach to Africa's Infrastructure Crisis'.
•Consultant, United Nations Secretariat, New York: March 1999: To write an Issues paper on the Recent Developments in African Economies and the Challenges Ahead’
•Consultant/Member- Advisory Committee (1998- 2003): African regional project on "New Social Knowledge for Africa: Module 1 'Africa's Real Economies'", CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal.
•Consultant and Team Leader, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, 15 September- 30 November, 1998: Led the team that produced the Economic Report on Africa 1999. My major contribution was in changing the framework ECA uses in analyzing the African economies. I developed the set of composite indices-- performance, policy stance, and sustainability indices (now popularly known as the ECA Indices, and being refined to serve as framework for monitoring African economies under NEPAD).
•Consultant, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)/UNOPS, New York, August- October 1998; to write a paper for the African Futures on Competitiveness, Abidjan
•Visiting Scholar/Consultant: August/September, 1998; International Monetary Fund (IMF) Institute, Washington, DC: Taught a course on ‘Economic Growth: theories and applications’, in a Senior Policy Seminar organized by the Institute.
•Consultant: March 1998; IMF Institute as Facilitator in the Regional Course on Financial Programming and Policy (March 9-27).
•Consultant, Economic and Social Policy Division, UN-Economic Commission for Africa: to prepare background/issues paper for Africa's participation in the TICAD II; as well as collaborated with two other resource persons in organizing a workshop on 'Economic Policy Analysis' for the staff of the ECA.: September-November, 1997.
•Visiting Scholar/consultant, (August-September 12, 1997); IMF Research Department, Washington, DC.
•Consultant, International Development Research Centre of Canada: November 1996- March 1997: To develop research proposal, and write a concept paper.
•Consultant, UNCTAD; 1997: To write research report on 'Trade Liberalization and Supply Responses in Africa'.
•Consultant, International Center for Economic Growth (ICEG), Africa Office, Nairobi: January-March 1997: to write a paper.
•Consultant, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA); June 1996- May 1997: Edited a book, and co-authored another: both books already published.
•Consultant, Development Centre, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Paris, France: June 1996- June 1997: Produced two technical papers.
•The Resource person in a 10-day training workshop on "Macroeconomic policy analysis for Regional integration" organized by the Organization of African Unity (OAU): OAU Secretariat, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; January 10- 19, 1996.
•Guest Scholar (July -September, 1995): Network of Empirical Research on International Macroeconomics (NERIM) Project, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC.
•Consultant, Research Department, IMF, January- March 1994: to "review the developing country sectors of MULTIMOD global model, with a view to developing 'Prototype Model Specifications for the African Sector of MULTIMOD' ".
•Consultant, Centre for Democratic Studies (CDS), Abuja, as Trainer of elected party officers, Enugu State, Nigeria: May 1990.
"We will leverage the entrepreneurial and community spirit of Ndi Anambra to create a more industrialized economy. This will be enabled by constant power supply guarantood security, officient transport infrastructure, aggressive investment drive technology, and funded through innovative partnerships"
Selected International Appointments and Consultancies
•Founder/Chairman, Board of Directors, Africa Finance Corporation—AFC-- (2007 - 2009). Africa Finance Corporation commenced with capitalization of US$1.1 billion as Africa’s private sector-led Investment Bank.
•Member, United Nations Commission of Experts on the Global Economic and Financial Crisis (2008-09)—appointed by the President of UN General Assembly and committee chaired by Professor Joseph Stiglitz.
•As Governor of Central Bank, was Alternate Governor at the IMF and World Bank Board of Governors (2004- 2009)
•Member, Chief Economist Advisory Council, The World Bank (since 2006)
• Member, UK- DFID International Advisory Group, 2005—2008
• Member, World Economic Forum, 2004---
• Member, Advisory Board, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, USA. Since 2002
• Senior Economic Advisor/Coordinator of programmes in Nigeria: Chemonics International, Inc., Washington, DC (2001- 2002)
•Coordinator, IDRC Regional Project on the “Political Economy of Trade Policy and Industrialization in Africa”: 1999- 2001. Project covered 8 country case studies-- South Africa, Mauritius, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Senegal, and Cote d'Ivoire.
•Coordinator (with Prof. Steve O'Connell of Swarthmore College, USA), 2000--2003: AERC's 'African Economic Growth Project', with an international steering committee, five thematic papers, and 30 country case studies. Output published in two volumes by the Cambridge University Press.
• Resource Person, African Economic Research Consortium, Nairobi: to evaluate research proposals, work-in-progress and final reports during its research workshops: 2001- 2003.
•Smuts' Research Fellow (October 1996- June 1997): University of Cambridge, U.K., and Member, Governing Board of the Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, and Visiting Faculty, Faculty of Economics and Politics.
•Visiting Research Scholar (Jan- June 1997- jointly with Cambridge fellowship:; and April-August 1994) Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford, U.K. Completed research papers, and presented seminars. Funding by Rhodes Research Committee.
•Visiting Scholar, International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC: various times since 1994. Regularly teach the ‘Financial Programming and Policy’ course for the IMF Institute
•Research Associate, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford, U.K., 1994--
•Research Associate, African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Nairobi: 1991----2000 (Undertook about 10 funded studies for the Consortium).
•Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (September 1992- October 1993): Socio-Economic Research and Planning Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UN-ECA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Produced two research reports and contributed actively to the research, seminar and other technical work of the Division.
•Visiting Research Fellow (January 1991- July 1992): Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC. Advanced training in multi-country macroeconometric modeling, and collaborated with R.C. Bryant in producing PCSIM version of IMF’s global model—MULTIMOD— and used the model in various studies. Participated actively in research, training, and workshop activities at the Brookings.
•National Coordinator/Secretary, National Working Groups’ Initiative on: Trade and Macroeconomic Policy; Infrastructure; Agriculture; Institutional and Regulatory Reforms; and Small and Medium Enterprises—with funding by the World Bank; DFID; USAID; January – December 2003.
•Lead consultant and coordinator, joint project of IBM Consulting Services, VA, USA and African Institute for Applied Economics, Enugu, on evaluation of USAID Economic Growth and Agriculture portfolio, November 2002- April 2003.
•Consultant, African Development Bank, October 2002- January 2003: to write paper on ‘Africa: Strategies for Coping with Globalization”, and Chapter One of the Africa Development Report, 2003.
•Consultant, EU/ECOWAS, October-November 2002, to conduct a study on “The Potential Impacts of Extending the UEMOA Common External Tariffs to other ECOWAS Countries: A case study of the impacts on Fiscal Revenue and Trade Balance in Nigeria”.
•Consultant, World Bank, April--August 2002, to co-author the Synthesis Report on the Evaluation of the Comprehensive Development Framework.
•Consultant, World Bank, October 2001- April 2002; to co-author (with Torgny Holmgren-- Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs) thematic paper on 'Country-led partnership in the context of the Comprehensive Development Framework'.
•Consultant, World Bank, July- September, 2002, to author a review of the 'International experiences on trade liberalization in Developing Countries'.
•Consultant, UN Secretariat, New York: February-March 2002: to write paper on the 'Evaluation of the Resource Flows to Africa During the Period of UN-NADAF, 1992- 2002'.
•Consultant: African Development Bank, Abidjan: January 2002: to write paper on 'Aid Relationships and Global Governance" and presented at ADB/OECD Centre seminar: Paris.
•Consultant: African Development Bank, Abidjan, October-December 2001: to write chapter One of African Development Report 2002.
•Consultant, UN-ECA, Addis Ababa: September 2001: to write paper on Nigerian Country Economic Report, 2001.
•Consultant, World Bank/GDN Network, 2001: co-authored a paper (with Jongil Kim-- South Korean) on "Survey of the Growth Models and Economic Performance in Developing Regions: Still More Questions than Answers".
•Consultant: July 2001; IMF Institute as Facilitator in the West African Regional Course on Financial Programming and Policy (July 16-28). Gave series of lectures on macroeconomics and policy issues, and organized technical workshop sessions to teach participants how to design a typical IMF financial programming.
•Consultant, USAID: April/May; July/August, 2000: Facilitator of training program for Nigerian government officials on ‘Macroeconomic Models, Analysis and Policy” The World Bank, Washington, DC. Course covered macroeconomic and sectoral accounting and interrelations among the accounts; consistency framework of the World Bank's RMSM-XX; Exchange Rate regimes; and forecasting techniques.
•Advisor/Reviewer, 2001/2002 World Development Report, Institutions for Markets. The World Bank. Also authored one of the Background papers.
•Consultant, UN Secretariat, New York, May- mid June 2000: to write a paper on 'Mobilization of Financial Resources for African Development'.
•Consultant, COMESA: May, 2000: to write paper on investment and competitiveness and as Guest Speaker to the COMESA council of ministers meeting in Mauritius
•Consultant, UNCTAD, Geneva: February/March 2000: to conduct study on ‘Financing Development in African LDCs’ and Resource person in the African Regional preparatory meeting for the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries.
•Consultant, UN-ECA, Addis Ababa: March 2000: member of Special Task Force to Evaluate the activities of the UN-IDEP, Dakar.
•Consultant/Technical Assistance Advisor, the IMF, Washington, DC: February 21-March 10, 2000: to lecture and lead workshops at the IMF Institute’s regional course on Financial Programming and Policy, Accra, Ghana.
•Consultant, The World Bank, Washington, DC: May 1999- February 2000: Long-term consultant to work on the “Africa in the 21st Century” project: the book entitled Can Africa Claim the 21st Century? (published May 2000 by The World Bank, was a collaborative effort by the AERC, ADB, ECA, GCA, and the World Bank.
•Consultant, African Economic Research Consortium, Nairobi: Commissioned to develop and teach a course to senior African economists on 'The Techniques of macroeconometric modeling': November/ December , 1999.
•Consultant, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Geneva: January 1999: to write a paper: "Towards A Regional Approach to Africa's Infrastructure Crisis'.
•Consultant, United Nations Secretariat, New York: March 1999: To write an Issues paper on the Recent Developments in African Economies and the Challenges Ahead’
•Consultant/Member- Advisory Committee (1998- 2003): African regional project on "New Social Knowledge for Africa: Module 1 'Africa's Real Economies'", CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal.
•Consultant and Team Leader, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, 15 September- 30 November, 1998: Led the team that produced the Economic Report on Africa 1999. My major contribution was in changing the framework ECA uses in analyzing the African economies. I developed the set of composite indices-- performance, policy stance, and sustainability indices (now popularly known as the ECA Indices, and being refined to serve as framework for monitoring African economies under NEPAD).
•Consultant, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)/UNOPS, New York, August- October 1998; to write a paper for the African Futures on Competitiveness, Abidjan
•Visiting Scholar/Consultant: August/September, 1998; International Monetary Fund (IMF) Institute, Washington, DC: Taught a course on ‘Economic Growth: theories and applications’, in a Senior Policy Seminar organized by the Institute.
•Consultant: March 1998; IMF Institute as Facilitator in the Regional Course on Financial Programming and Policy (March 9-27).
•Consultant, Economic and Social Policy Division, UN-Economic Commission for Africa: to prepare background/issues paper for Africa's participation in the TICAD II; as well as collaborated with two other resource persons in organizing a workshop on 'Economic Policy Analysis' for the staff of the ECA.: September-November, 1997.
•Visiting Scholar/consultant, (August-September 12, 1997); IMF Research Department, Washington, DC.
•Consultant, International Development Research Centre of Canada: November 1996- March 1997: To develop research proposal, and write a concept paper.
•Consultant, UNCTAD; 1997: To write research report on 'Trade Liberalization and Supply Responses in Africa'.
•Consultant, International Center for Economic Growth (ICEG), Africa Office, Nairobi: January-March 1997: to write a paper.
•Consultant, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA); June 1996- May 1997: Edited a book, and co-authored another: both books already published.
•Consultant, Development Centre, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Paris, France: June 1996- June 1997: Produced two technical papers.
•The Resource person in a 10-day training workshop on "Macroeconomic policy analysis for Regional integration" organized by the Organization of African Unity (OAU): OAU Secretariat, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; January 10- 19, 1996.
•Guest Scholar (July -September, 1995): Network of Empirical Research on International Macroeconomics (NERIM) Project, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC.
•Consultant, Research Department, IMF, January- March 1994: to "review the developing country sectors of MULTIMOD global model, with a view to developing 'Prototype Model Specifications for the African Sector of MULTIMOD' ".
•Consultant, Centre for Democratic Studies (CDS), Abuja, as Trainer of elected party officers, Enugu State, Nigeria: May 1990.
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