Vincent Nwanma

Vincent Chikwendu Nwanma is a versatile analyst, columnist, researcher, trainer, and reporter with over 30 years of experience in business and economics journalism in Nigeria and parts of Africa. 
Nwanma has reported on a full-time or freelance basis for Inter Press Service, Concord Press, Bloomberg News, Dow Jones Newswires, The Christian Science Monitor, The Africa Report, Global Finance Magazine, and Allen Dreyfus. From November 2018 to June 2020, he served as Online Editor at BusinessDay newspaper. He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of Daily Trust newspaper, where he also maintains a weekly column.
From 2015 to 2017, he served as Nigeria Country Programme Manager for the Bloomberg Media Initiative Africa, which trained economics and business journalists in Africa. The programme also seeks to encourage data-based reporting across the continent.
Nwanma holds a first degree in economics from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, specialising in econometrics and mathematical economics. He later obtained a Certificate in Economics and Business Journalism and a Master of Science in Journalism from Columbia University, New York, where he studied as a World Bank Scholar and Knight-Bagehot Fellow.  He also holds a PhD in Mass Communication from the University of Lagos, Nigeria.
He is a joint winner of the Diageo African Business Reporting Award, 2007 (Best Published Feature category). In 2003, his reports for Dow Jones Newswires on a strike by Nigerian oil workers moved the international oil price for 10 straight days.
He is the author of When Stocks Got Stuck: The Crash and Rise of Nigeria’s Capital Market (2024); Reporting Business and Economy: A Handbook for Analysts and Journalists (2011); Do It Well (2008) and Creating Wealth through the Stock Market (2005). 
He has also made chapter contributions to two books published by the Columbia University Press, New York, USA, in addition to journal articles.