Lotanna Emediegwu is a lecturer in economics at the Manchester Metropolitan University. His research interests, which include environmental economics, climate econometrics, spatial econometrics, agricultural economics, health economics, and nonlinear modeling sit within the Future Economies Research Cluster of the University. Lotanna holds a Ph.D. in environmental and resource economics from the University of Manchester. Before then he bagged a first class degree from the University of Benin where he graduated as the best student in the Faculty of Social Sciences, thus winning lots of awards, including the Vice-Chancellor’s award for academic excellence. Thereafter, he was retained as a graduate assistant in the Department from where he rose to an assistant lecturer. He won the much-coveted Presidential Award for Scholarship, Innovation and Development (PRESSID) which enabled him to pursue an MSc degree in Financial Economics at the University of Manchester where he graduated with a distinction. Lotanna is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and was awarded the AERNA Best Paper Award for an Economist under the Age of Forty in 2021.