PROF. PETER MURIU

Prof. Peter Muriu holds PhD in Financial Economics from University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. He is an associate Professor of finance and economics at the Department of Economics & Development Studies, University of Nairobi. Besides being an alumni of African Economic Research Consortium, Collaborative Masters Programme (CMAP) Scholarship Award for African Scholars, he is also an active member of AERC network and an external reviewer, finance & resource mobilization thematic research. He is also an external reviewer for Oxford Development Studies, Financial Regulation and Compliance and Transnational Corporations Review Journals. For over 20 years he has spearheaded various research projects whose aim is to ignite new policies on financial inclusion; financial stability; climate finance; banking concentration; microfinance initiatives; cross border banking; provisioning behaviour and risk management in the banking industry; development banks as instrument of economic growth, digital finance, financial innovations, emerging technologies/FINTECH and recent developments in capital markets. As a policy analyst he has been engaged by Africa Development Bank (AfDB), several African governments on matters of financial inclusion,  banking and institutional  reforms.