Experience

Wits Business School

• South Africa
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Lecturer (Economics & Finance)

  • Dec 2017 - Present

  • Produce economic research outputs that address important national and global matters, including financial stability and systemic risk, financial market interconnectedness, contagion risk, international portfolio diversification, and trade policy formulation. A selection of my works maybe viewed at https://cutt.ly/LlN2P0V. • Provide academic leadership to enrich the profile of the Wits Business School in the disciplines of economics and finance, and general business education • Play an active part in the development and implementation of the teaching and research plans of the school • Supervise PhD and Masters students, along with mentoring junior staff and research active academics • Lecture postgraduate students on the following courses: Time Series Econometrics, Applied Financial Econometrics, Finance and Investment Decisions, Financial Analysis, Economics (Macroeconomics and Microeconomics)• Lecture executives across Africa on topics such as Finance and Investment, Economic Trends, Business Economics, Development and Entrepreneurial Finance• Convened and Chaired the African Review of Economics and Finance Conference (2018 & 2019)• Chair and serve in many University committees

• Director of Postgraduate Diploma in Management (PDM) Programme

  • Jan 2019 - Present

  • Take strategic leadership for the PDM programme, including innovating, and driving the teaching and learning strategy. • Lead a very competitive programme that integrates the best teaching and learning experience to students and lecturers• Implement the Teaching Schedule for Lecturers on the programme and ensure that the core themes of the programme are incorporate in the teaching of the allocated courses• Reviews admission applications from potential students and makes decisions on acceptance or denial based on past education, personal statements, and academic success• Ensure that the content of the programme and the delivery in the classroom is in line with international best practices and ensure that the teaching supports the appropriate strategy pillars of the School. • Hold a watching brief for the requirements for the international accrediting bodies and ensure that the PDM programme is in line with accreditation criteria



African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM)

• International Affairs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Committee Member, Consultative Technical Meeting on APRM Support to Member States on International C

  • Jun 2019 - Present

  • Committee on the APRM Support to Member States on International Credit RatingAgencies.• Part of the Working Committee that restructured and compiled the Draft Policy Framework for the APRM Support on Member States on ICRAs



African Review of Economics and Finance

• South Africa
• Education Administration Programs

• Editor

  • 2019 - Present

  Work with the Editor-in-Chief to achieve rules related to the following areas:• Authorship criteria• Fund-raising• Guidelines for preparing and submitting manuscripts• Policies on conflicts of interest for all involved in the publication process, including editors, staff (e.g., editorial and sales), authors, and reviewers.• Copyrights• Establishing clear guidelines for authors regarding acceptable practices for sharing experimental materials and information, particularly those required to replicate the research, before and after publication• Establishing a procedure for reconsidering editorial decisions• Describing, implementing, and regularly reviewing policies for handling ethical issues and allegations or findings of misconduct by authors• Informing authors of solicited manuscripts that the submission will be evaluated according to the journal's standard procedures or outlining the decision-making process if it differs from those procedures• Developing mechanisms to ensure timely publication of accepted manuscripts. • Clearly communicating all other editorial policies and standards



AREF Consult

• South Africa
• Business Consulting and Services

• Director Of Training

  • Jan 2016 - Present

  • Lead teams to design and execute training programs in econometric modelling, forecasting and research to help corporate institutions, professionals, academics and graduate students to grow and develop their existing skills and keep up with the latest theoretical and empirical knowledge in the fields of economics and finance• Organize and Chair the Annual African Review of Economics and Finance conferences, which brings together policymakers, academics, and practitioners from the public and private sector to discuss various economic issues• Consulted for the African Export-Import Bank (AFREXIMBANK) on the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) and contributed to their flagship report -The African Trade Report• Consultant to KPMG: Provided an econometric assessment on the impacts of multiple exchange rate windows on the Nigerian economy and firms operating within the economy. • Consultant to KPMG: Modelled the impact of beer tax reforms on beer use and domestic resources mobilization under different scenarios.

• Director of Finance, Investment & Social Development

  • 2016 - 2017



Wits Business School

• South Africa
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Economics and Finance)

  • Nov 2015 - Oct 2017

  • Produced research outputs that address important national and global matters. • Contributed to edited works, position papers, consultancy reports and articles for professional journals • Provided academic leadership to enrich the profile of the School in the disciplines of economics and finance, and general business education • Played an active part in the development and implementation of the teaching and research plans of the school • Supervised Masters students and mentored PhD students



School of Construction Economics and Management, University of the Witwatersrand

• South Africa
• Architecture and Planning
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sessional Lecturer

  • Jul 2016 - Jun 2017

  • Taught Real Estate Corporate Finance to year 2 Bachelor students• Achieved a 100% percent pass rate in my course• Supported undergraduate students, reviewed their work and provided feedback



Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD)

• Brunei Darussalam
• Higher Education
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Doctoral Researcher and Teaching Assistant

  • Jan 2012 - Aug 2015

  Functioned independently in designing, organizing and conducting research on economic topics using modern econometric techniques, which culminated in the award of a PhD in the field of Economics with a thesis titled “ Essays on Portfolio Diversification and Risk Management: An Asian Perspective.”Teaching Assistant for the following courses• Principles of Economics (Undergrad level)• Applied Econometrics (Masters level)• Quantitative Tools for Policy Analysis (Masters level)



Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi

• Ghana
• Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Administrative Assistant (National Service)

  • Sep 2009 - Jul 2010

  Worked in the Human Resources Development Division.Provided administrative support in the office of the Registrar, KNUST.



Tripod IT Services

• Research Assistant

  • Aug 2008 - Apr 2010

  Data entry and Analyses