Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Development and Evaluation Partner
<div class='mailmunch-forms-before-post' style='display: none !important;'></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Bongo Adi holds a full-time faculty position in Economics, Project Finance, Business Intelligence and Data Analytics at Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria. He is a development economist, data Scientist, actuarial scientist, PPP & Project Finance expert and management consultant working in the infrastructure, economic development and Policy field for the last 20 years. His expertise has seen him lead and manage exciting and complex projects on multi-state randomized control experiments in health; evaluation of CCT in education; Propensity Score Matching; Marketing analytics; Competitive strategy design; Large sample surveys design and implementation; Infrastructure reforms and PPPs, project finance, market sounding for PPP studies, Willingness-To-Pay studies; Multi-sectoral Computable General Equilibrium modelling; Macroeconomics modelling and forecasting; Econometrics modelling and analysis; Economic development strategies including SME development, Port sector reform; Organizational re-engineering, and Finance. He has sound expertise in managing large grants within development aid contexts. As a data scientist, he possesses advanced technical capability in R, S-plus, Python, Excel, Stata, SPSS, Ox, LaTeX, etc. He designs integrated information systems and business process automation via Excel VBA etc.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Dr Adi holds a PhD in Regional Science and Development Economics and M.Sc in Economic Development and Policy Management under the Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship of the University of Tsukuba, Japan. He did a postdoctoral training in Data Mining at the National Agricultural Research Center, Japan. He is a recipient of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellowship. His research has been presented in numerous international conferences, workshops and published in top ranked international journals.</p><div class='mailmunch-forms-in-post-middle' style='display: none !important;'></div>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Dr. Bongo Adi has consulted for the World Bank on project design, preparation and appraisal. He is a regular Economist and Business analyst on Channels TV and CNBC Africa. His column – bongonomics – in Business-day newspaper which has attracted wide readership, is dedicated to using economic theories to explain human behavior in challenging economic contexts.</p>
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