Ayo TERIBA
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Ayo is the CEO of Economic Associates. He has worked as an Economist at Lagos Business School, Lagos Chamber of Commerce, ThisDay Newspaper Group, and UAC of Nigeria; he has also worked as a Consultant to Coca Cola Nigeria, DfID, Federal Ministry of Information, Senate Committee on Banking and Finance, USAID, and World Bank, and as a Visiting Scholar at the IMF Research Department in Washington DC. He has received research grants from Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation, and chairs the steering committee of the Money, Macroeconomic and Finance Research Group of the Money Market Association of Nigeria. He holds B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Ibadan with Sir James Robertson Prize and Medal, UAC Prize in Economics, and Economics Departmental Prize as all-round best economics graduate in 1988, an M. Sc. Economics from Ibadan in 1990, an M.Phil. Economics of Developing Countries as a Cambridge-DfID Scholar at the University of Cambridge in 1992, and a Ph.D. in Applied Econometrics and Monetary Economics from University of Durham in 2003.

Olly OWEN
Country & State Risk Analyst

Olly Owen is risk analyst at Economic Associates, responsible for country and states political risk assessments. He was educated at Cambridge University, from where he received a first class BA in Anthropology, and the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London, from where he received an MSc in African Politics. He previously worked as West Africa risk analyst for Global Insight in London, dealing with major corporate clients working in finance, energy and service industries, as well as governmental agencies. In addition to subsequent work with major risk management agencies, he has consulted for the International Crisis Group and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and is a frequent contributor to media outlets including the BBC, CNN, Voice of America, and has written for the UK Guardian. He has published and presented extensively on strategic and energy interests in West Africa, and on security and communal conflicts in Nigeria.

Alo EHIMIAGHE
Research Team Leader

Alo holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Hull with a CIMA prize for excellent academic performance, and M.Sc. in Economics from the University of Nottingham. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Development Studies at the University of Sussex. She has worked as a graduate assistant with the University of Sussex and as a visiting lecturer at the University of Brighton. Her research interests are poverty, livelihoods, safety nets, and the macroeconomy.

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