EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

EDITOR

Jones Odei Mensah is a Senior Lecturer in the Wits Business School at the University of the Witwatersrand. His research interests lie at the intersection of finance and macroeconomics, with particular focus on financial interconnectedness, international trade and macroeconomic policy. He has recently studied the optimal financing of fiscal deficits, systemic interconnectedness among banking institutions, market comovement, and the impact of commodity shocks on business cycles.

He is the Editor of the Ghanaian Journal of Economics, the International Editor of the Colombo Business Journal, and serves on a number of editorial boards.

He is a Director of the AREF Consult, a research and policy network, and he has consulted widely for leading international organisations. He is currently the Editor of the African Review of Economics and Finance.

EDITOR

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Prior to joining Huddersfield, Collins was a Lecturer (Aberystwyth University, and University of Glasgow) and Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor (Universities of Glasgow and Southampton) in accounting and finance. He has a PhD (University of Glasgow), an MRes with Distinction (University of Glasgow), an MSc with Distinction (University of Leicester), and a BSc with First Class (University of Ghana) degrees in accounting and finance, as well as a Postgraduate Certificate of Teaching in Higher Education (Aberystwyth University) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

He has also consulted for KPMG-Nigeria, UNICEF Ghana, ActionAid Ghana, LOGODEP/USAID, Associates for Change (AfC), RAINS, International Growth Centre (IGC) on several fields including but not limited to sustainable agriculture, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), food security, formal and informal finance, education, governance, health, women's empowerment and macro-level studies.

Muazu also has a firm grip on research both in terms of data/methodology and sound analysis. He has a wide and varied experience in both qualitative and quantitative techniques of data collection and analysis. Beyond development work, Muazu has invaluable experience in academia. He holds PhD in Finance from University of The Witwatersrand, South Africa; MSc. in Development Economics from School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK and a BA in Economics (First Class Honours) from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana. He is a Lecturer at the Department of Banking and Finance, School of Business and Law, University for Development Studies, Ghana.

In his early research career, Muazu has extensively published in top-tier journals in the areas of finance and economics. He is one of the Associate Editors of African Review of Economics and Finance (AREF). He is a Research Associate at the Africa Centre on Philanthropy and Social Investment (ACPSI), Wits Business School, South Africa. He is also a Research Fellow with the Macroeconomic and Governance Division (MGD) at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Dr. Boako is self-motivated individual with strong commitment to advance knowledge through teaching and research in competitive environments. He is very skilled advanced econometrics. He has strong organisational and analytical skills and his approach to modelling, forecasting and instilling knowledge is second to none. Gideon has published widely in leading international peer reviewed journals

Emeritus Editor-in-Chief

Imhotep is a metaeconomist, and a transdisciplinary scholar with avid interest in the noumena behind phenomena. He has published widely in leading international peer reviewed journals, and is the Grand Editor of the Journal of Indigenous and Ancestral Studies. He has mentored a large number of pre-doctoral, doctoral and post-doctoral fellows, and consulted widely for governments, multilateral agencies and blue chip corporations.

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD

Prof Augustin K. Fosu, ISSER, University of Ghana, Ghana

Prof. Ingrid Woolard, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

Prof. Waaseem Mina, United Arab Emirates University, UAE

Prof. Theodore Panagiotidis, University of Macedonia, Greece

Prof. Jane Kabubo-Mariara, University of Nairobi, Kenya

Prof. Vishnu Padayachee, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Prof. Uma Kollamparambil, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Prof Yaw Debra, Swansea University, UK

Prof Kalu Ojah, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Prof. Felix O. Ayadi, Texas Southern University, USA

Prof. Samuel Laryea, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Prof. Emeritus John Weeks, SOAS, University of London, UK

Prof. Caroline Hossein, York University, Canada

Prof. Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University, USA

Prof. Abdallah Zouache, Sciences Po, France

Dr. George Bob-Milliar, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana

Dr. Kenneth Soyeh, University of Wisconsin Whitewater, USA

Dr. Nana Akua Anyidoho, ISSER, University of Ghana, Ghana

Dr. Alice Nicole Sindzingre, National Centre for Scientific Research, EconomiX, France

Dr. Hassan A. Ahmad, Loughborough University, UK

Dr. Simeon Coleman, Loughborough University, UK

Dr. Renee Horne, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Dr. Raymond Talinbe Abdulai, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Dr. Zeremariam Fre, UCL, University of London, UK

Dr. Nathaniel Ojong, York University, Canada

Dr. Wadjamsse B. Djezou, University of Bouake, Cote d'Ivoire

Dr. Simplice Asongu, University of Buea, Cameroon

Dr. Koen Smet, WU Vienna, Austria

Dr. Yoon Jung Park, Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Network, Johns Hopkins University, and Georgetown University, USA