Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo
Executive Governor Anambra State
Early life
Soludo is so intelligent and he won prizes for the best student at all three levels (first degree, MSc, and PhD) of his education at UNN.
Soludo has been married to Nonye Frances Soludo since December 1992, and they have six children.
Education
Soludo has been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, the University of Cambridge, the Brookings Institution, the University of Warwick, and the University of Oxford as well as a visiting professor at Swarthmore College (USA).
1984
1984
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
First Class Honours Degree
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
MSc Economics
1987
1987
1989
1989
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
PhD
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Professor of Economics
1998
1998
1999
1999
Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA
Visiting Professor
Career
2003
Chief economic adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo.
2004
Chief Executive of the National Planning Commission of Nigeria.
2004
He was appointed as the Central Bank of Nigeria’s governor on 29 May 2004.
2019
On 16 September 2019, the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, appointed Soludo as a member of a newly formed 8-member Economic Advisory Council (EAC) which would report directly to the President on issues related to national economic policies.
Publications
Soludo has co-authored, co-edited, and authored a number of books on this subject matter.
1992
“North-South Macroeconomic Interactions: Comparative Analysis using the MULTIMOD and INTERMOD global models”
1993
“Implications of alternative macroeconomic policy responses to external shocks in Africa”
1993
“Growth performance in Africa: Further evidence on the external shocks versus domestic policy debate”
1994
“The Consequences of US Fiscal Actions in a Global Model with Alternative Assumptions about the Exchange Regime in Developing Countries”
1995
“Macroeconomic adjustment, trade, and growth: Policy analysis using a macroeconomic model of Nigeria”
1998
Macroeconomic Policy Modelling of African Economies.
1999
“Our Continent, Our Future: African Perspectives on Structural Adjustment”
2002
“African Voices on Structural Adjustment: A Companion to Our Continent, Our Future”,
2004
“The Politics of Trade and Industrial Policy in Africa: Forced Consensus”
2006
“Potential Impacts of the New Global Financial Architecture on Poor Countries”
Chukwuma has been trained and involved in research, teaching, and auditing in such disciplines as multi-country macro-econometric modelling, techniques of computable general equilibrium modelling, survey methodology, and panel data econometrics, among others.
He studied and taught these courses at many universities, including Oxford, Cambridge, and Warwick.
