Quantum Global group is currently bolstering its thought leadership and media relations expansion plans with a significant drive to support high level African focused research aimed at contributing to the continent’s fast moving growth narrative.

The publication featured contributions from academic luminaries including Nobel laureates Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University) and Roger Myerson (University of Chicago), and prominent economists such as Jeffrey Sachs Columbia University), Paul Collier (University of Oxford), Ha-joon Chang (University of Cambridge), Kaushik Basu (World Bank), Francois Bourguignon (Paris School of Economics), Ernest Aryeetey (University of Ghana), Mustapha Nabli (former Central Bank Governor of Tunisia) and Julia Cagé (Sciences-Po, Paris).

Mr Monga, a former Senior Economic Advisor and Director at the World Bank, joined the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation as Managing Director in January 2015.  A long standing pro-bono Advisory Board member at the Quantum Global group and a Cameroonian national, he is recognised as one of the world’s foremost thinkers on African economics and socio-economic dynamics.

In the foreword, Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank, wrote: “As always, Africa must aim high. This time we can and we will achieve our aims. This expertly written book will heighten international understanding of interest in our continent. This is a compellingly realistic summary of all the big themes affecting Africa’s future, and I warmly commend it.”