Dr. Oyeyemi Kale, former banker and Statistician General of the Federation/Chief Executive Officer of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), has joined KPMG Nigeria as Partner and Chief Economist.
KPMG Nigeria announced the appointment in a Twitter post in Lagos.
The leading professional firms providing audit, tax and advisory services said, “As our Chief Economist, Yemi will lead the Firm’s view on macroeconomics and enhance the breadth of our solutions involving economic modelling & macroeconomic analysis, in private and public sector clients.”
He has deep experience, gained from both the private and public sector, in macroeconomic analysis, financial, economic and investment research and fiscal and macroeconomic policy advisory.
From 2011 to 2021 he served as the Statistician General of the Federation/Chief Executive Officer of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). He was appointed to the position of the office in 2011 for a five year tenure and was re-appointed in 2016.
Kale received his undergraduate degree from Addis Ababa University and a Doctorate from the London School of Economics & Political Science. He has served on several presidential committees and advisory bodies. He is also an alumnus of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government leadership in government programmes.
The new appointee belongs to several professional bodies.
He is a Fellow of the UK Royal Statistical Society, Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Administrators and Researchers of Nigeria, Member at the World Economics Federation, Member at the Royal Economic Society and Member of the Nigerian Statistical Association.
