Bongo Adi holds a full-time faculty position in the Economics, Data Analytics and Strategic Business Intelligence department of Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria. He is a Development Economist, Corporate Strategist, Data Scientist, PPP & Project Finance expert with over two decades of experience in Development Economics research, consulting and strategy policy advisory; capital raising, business development and data analytics. His expertise has seen him lead and manage exciting and complex projects on subnational competitiveness indicator engineering and benchmarking. He has led several organizational re-engineering projects including skill-set diagnostic benchmarking, balance scorecard implementation, and manning analysis. His clients include both public sector organisations and a motley of blue chip companies and SMEs. As a Project Finance and PPP expert, he pioneered PPP and Project Finance training at LBS, Nigeria. As a technical economists he is adept in Multi-sectoral Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modelling, macroeconomics modelling and forecasting, econometrics modelling and analysis. He applies his skills in economic development to help nurture startups and develop MSMEs. As a development finance specialist, he helps startups and SMEs to access venture capital, and various supports from donor agencies, CBN and the wider development finance ecosystem. He has sound expertise in managing large grants within development aid contexts. 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 postdoctral training in Data Mining at the National Agricultural Research Center, Japan. He is a recipient of several awards including: UNU Fellowships (2000); World Bank Scholarship (2000); Japanese Scholarship for International Students (2004, 2005, 2006); Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellowship (2006); and several Best Paper Awards etc. His research has been presented in numerous international conferences, workshops and published in top ranked international journals. He is a regular Economist and Business analyst on Channels TV, CNBC Africa, TVC, Arise TV, Silverbrid TV, and AIT. He maintains a column bongonomics in Businessday newspaper. He is the Chairman of the Board of Prime Media Ltd, Nigeria’s leading online media and financial journalism company. He also sits on the board of several other blue chip companies and foundations. He also serves as a member of the editorial board of National Economy, Prime News and Daily Independent newspapers. His work in advancing education, social inclusion, poverty alleviation and other charitable initiatives have been recognized with several awards. He is a celebrated policy economic activist who uses the media to keep the managers of the economy on their feet. He is Nigeria’s leading policy economist with international media footprint.