About I'm Nnanyelugo Martin Ike-Muonso.
I am a seasoned natural resource economist and a university professor specializing in raw material markets and research commercialization. I have over three decades of experience, one-third of which was in marketing industrial chemicals. My expertise spans the economics of raw material and industrial chemical markets, focusing on supply chain dynamics, market demand analysis, pricing strategies, and effective commercialization techniques.
How I Got Here
Previously, I served as a Fellow of Edinburgh University's Scaling Business in Africa program, where my research centred on raw material research commercialization. Before this, I was Chief Executive Officer at ValueFronteira Limited, a renowned research firm. Additionally, I have served as the Executive Director of the GTI Trade Desk, in charge of the natural commodities (including chemicals and raw materials) trading desk. I also served as the Chief Operating Officer/General Manager of Grow Africa Limited, spearheading cross-country strategies for industrial chemicals and raw material market analysis. As a Fellow of the African Centre for Supply Chain, my interest involved raw material sourcing, acquisition, processing, and refining for market distribution.
My Values & Beliefs
Throughout my career, I have cultivated multifaceted experience across industry, consulting, academia, and policy-making spheres. As a member of the NANO tech research group of the University of Nigeria Nsukka and the STI-to-Business Initiative, my primary objective is to bolster economic diversification, catalyze industrial growth, ensure food security, and empower communities across Nigeria by leveraging the untapped potential of raw material resources.
I have actively engaged in numerous projects with esteemed international development partners such as USAID, World Bank, DAI, UNDP, DFID, Adam Smith International, UNIFEM, IPSOS, SUFFEGOR, CIDA, SLGP, ECOWAS, WATAF, European Commission, Bill Gates Foundation, Edinburgh Business School, and Lagos Business School.
As a visiting professor at the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, I am committed to imparting knowledge and fostering academic growth in natural resource economics. I hold a PhD in Economics from ESEADE University Institute in Argentina and a Doctor of Business Administration [DBA] from SMC University, Switzerland. Furthermore, I have authored several books and contributed over 100 publications to various esteemed journals, significantly enriching the knowledge within my field of expertise.
Education
ESEADE
2004 - 2007
Dissertation Title: "Responses of Domestic and Foreign Private Investment to Macroeconomic Conditions in Nigeria"
SMC University Doctorate, Business
2006 - 2008
Dissertation Title: "Dynamics and Characteristics of Business Uncertainties in Nigeria Since 1970"
Nnamdi Azikiwe University
1994 - 1995
Dissertation Title: "Econometric Evaluation of Money Supply Function for Nigeria"
Nnamdi Azikiwe University
1988 - 1992
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) - Economics
Experience
Chief Executive Officer
May 2024 - Present
Raw Materials Research and Development Council (RMRDC) · Full-time
President/Chief Executive
ValueFronteira Ltd
Jan 2009 - Present
ValueFronteira Ltd is innovation and growth-focused consulting firm. Its goal is to consistently enable clients to achieve robust all-round stakeholder performance [i.e. "maximum value at the frontier"].
International Fellow
Apr 2021 - Present
Scaling Business in Africa - University of Edinburgh Business School
Visiting Professor [Institute for Peace, Conflict and Development Studies]
Oct 2020 - Present
Enugu State University of Science and Technology · Part-time
Professor of Practice of International Administration and Global Economics
May 2008 - Present
EUCLID (Euclid Intergovernmental University Framework)
Courses I Taught/Teach: International Trade and business as well as Economic Development at Doctorate, MBA & MSc levels
Chief Transformation & HandHolding Officer
Feb 2018 - Jul 2020
GTI Group
I was referred to GTI primarily to strengthen the company's stand on research and data as the bases for its engagement with her clients as well as galvanise the company to keep pace with the digital speed of change in the industry. I'm excited and proudly commend GTI's current strong stand on data. I am even more elated about my successful creation of and driving of the HandHolding framework which now works both for the internal transformation of the company as well as the repositioning of several client companies. As at today we have at least six companies that have signed up to the program and are undergoing the HandHolding transformation at various stages. In this list are a 64-year-old conglomerate, 48 year old first indigenous paper mill, the first indigenous vaccine company, a leading domestic manufacturer of energy drinks, and a beer making brewery. The HandHolding framework is robustly proving that it has the capacity to raise a company from the dead and to make the weak ones to perform even much better.
