लेखक: Ray Echebiri

Ray Echebiri, a consummate financial journalist and development economist, is currently the Editor-in-Chief/CEO of Business World newspaper. Before founding Business World with two of his professional colleagues, Echebiri had worked with some of the most reputable newspapers and magazines in Nigeria. A widely-travelled journalist, Echebiri has covered many high profile local and international events. Beyond helping to shape public policy through his informed reports and opinion articles, Echebiri has participated in many conferences and seminars that crafted strategies targeted at achieving fast-paced growth for the Nigerian economy. Only recently, he served as a member of the drafting team for the Prioritisation of Federal Government’s Policies, Programmes and Projects (2011-2015). He also worked with some eminent scholars to produce the popular version of Nigeria’s economic transformation blueprint, Vision 20:2020. Echebiri had the rare privilege of studying for both first and post graduate degrees on scholarship. He studied at the University of Calabar, Nigeria, as a Mobil scholar and at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, as a British Chevening scholar.