Yemi is a Partner and Chief Economist, KPMG in Nigeria. As Chief Economist, he leads the Firm’s view on macroeconomics and enhances the growth agenda by both supporting and originating engagements involving economic modelling and econometrics. Yemi will also be responsible for leading our Firm’s research team. Yemi is a seasoned professional with over 23 years cumulative experience across both the private and public sectors. He has multidisciplinary expertise in data collection and analysis, asset management, project management and planning, macroeconomic analysis, financial, economic and investment research, fiscal and macroeconomic policy advisory and investment banking.In 2011, Yemi was appointed as the Statistician General of the Federation/ Chief Executive Officer of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), a position he held for ten (10 years). In this role, Yemi was widely commended for repositioning the NBS as a more strategic and credible organisation.