Muazu Ibrahim

Muazu is a Digital Financial Services Specialist at the African Development Bank. Prior to this, he worked as a consultant to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, and has also lectured at the Department of Banking and Finance, School of Business and Law, University for Development Studies, Ghana – where he taught both the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. He is an applied economist with research interests in development finance, time series econometrics, stock markets and the economics of corruption. At the micro-level, Muazu studies issues on poverty, NGOs and government social spending nexus. Muazu is widely published, with over 50 research articles, policy briefs and flagship reports. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics and Finance from the University of the Witwatersrand. He received his MSc in Development Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and BA in Economics from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.