Mma Amara Ekeruche

Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of the Economies of Africa (CSEA)

Ms. Mma Amara Ekeruche is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Economies of Africa (CSEA), Nigeria’s premier economic think tank. In addition, she runs a column ‘Your Nigerian Economist’ on Stears Business, Africa’s leading business publication. She holds a Master’s in Economic Policy from University College London (UCL), United Kingdom and a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. Her research interests are public finance and debt management, domestic resource mobilization, and macroeconomic management. Consequently, her research experience cuts across key issues in development including public debt, South-South Cooperation, and the impact of Chinese investment in Africa. You can find her work on the Think20, Brookings Institution, the International Centre for Tax and Development, the United Nations Office on South-South Cooperation, and Southern Voice. She was also awarded the IMF Youth Fellowship in 2020.