Meet our Leaders
As AIB Africa’s main governing body, our leadership team is responsible for member outreach, facilitating professional development opportunities, and organizing our annual Chapter Conference.
Below, you’ll find background details on each of our team members, our roles and responsibilities, and contact information to help you connect with us online.
Yaw Debrah
Chapter Chair
Chapter Chair
The Chapter Chair oversees all executive committee functions, including membership outreach, event coordination, and financial management.
Yaw Debrah
Yaw Debrah is a Professor of International Human Resources and International Business in the School of Management at Swansea University.
His research explores various topics including, cross-border trade, emerging economies, and industrial and corporate change. His articles have appeared in a variety of peer-reviewed publications, in including the Journal of Rural Studies, International Journal of Tourism Research, Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of International Management, and Thunderbird International Business Review.
Nkem Iheanachor
Treasurer
Treasurer
The Chapter Treasurer serves as a general financial liaison for all official activities and oversees the preparation of chapter budgets and other financial reports.
Anthony Goerzen
Nkemdilim has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering as well as MBA and MPhil Degrees from Pan-Atlantic University. He is currently completing his PhD work in the International Strategy Department of Pan-Atlantic University.
As a Faculty member of Lagos Business School’s Strategy Group, he has extensively researched and consulted in areas such as competitive strategy, corporate strategy, blue ocean strategy, balanced scorecard development and deployment and international business. He has also been a researcher in Lagos Business School’s Sustainable and Inclusive Digital Financial Services Initiative where he has led research projects, industry engagements, stakeholder events that aim to narrow Nigeria’s financial exclusion gap. He recently concluded a course on Microeconomics of Competitiveness in Harvard Business School, USA.
He is currently a member of Academy of International Business and has to his credit several journal articles, award-winning case studies and book chapters published in reputable international journals and books. He has been a reviewer for International Marketing Review, Thunderbird International Business Review and Journal of Business Research.
He has had prior experience in banking as a Relationship Manager in the Multilateral, Conglomerates and Private Banking Group of Zenith; as an investment banker where he was involved in project finance, mergers and acquisitions, and financial advisory; and as a consultant where he was involved in business advisory engagements for state governments, large multinationals, and local corporates.
His current consulting work span companies in the financial services industry, real estate, technology, oil and gas, marketing communications, aviation, telecommunications, consumer markets and retail all around Africa.
Tendy Matenge
Secretary
Secretary
The Secretary of the AIB Africa Executive Committee supports the Chapter Chair in the smooth functioning of the Special Initiatives Committee.
Tendy Matenge
Tendy Matenge is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Marketing.
He teaches various courses in both the Marketing and International Business streams. Some of the courses he teaches include Pricing Strategy, International Marketing, Globalisation and Business, and Consumer Behaviour.
His research interests are in emerging markets with particular interest on Firm Internationalisation, Corporate Governance, Networks, and Institutionalisation.
Tendy is currently pursuing a PhD with the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His Thesis seeks to explain how firm internationalisation leads to industrial development in emerging markets.
Wanjiku G. Thuita
Membership Secretary
Membership Secretary
The Membership Secretary leads all of AIB Africa’s membership recruitment and retention efforts. They also coordinate these chapter-level activities with the AIB Secretariat.
Wanjiku Gladys Thuita
Wanjiku Gladys Thuita is currently a 5th year PhD-Finance student at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. She holds an MBA in Finance, Bachelors in Business Administration (Accounting and Finance) and she is a Certified Public Accountant (K). To enrich her studies, Gladys has attended the 5th AfricaLics PhD Academy held in Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria in 2017 and the 6th AfricaLics PhD Academy held in Cadi Ayyad University in Morocco.
Her publications in peer-reviewed journals include; An Investigation of the Effect of Tax Incentives on the FDIs: A Case of EPZs in Athi River Kenya, Compensation, Working Conditions and Employee Satisfaction in Kilifi Export Processing Zones, Kenya (Co-authored) , Relationship between capped lending rate and non-performing loans of listed commercial banks in Kenya and a book chapter, Inequality and Rural Poverty in a book titled Emerging Economic Models for Global Sustainability and Social Development (co-authored). From the immense contributions derived from Export Processing, Wanjiku developed a passion to research more in in this area and therefore her PhD research is in EPZs. In addition to lecturing, Wanjiku is the current coordinator of students’ activities in the Riara School of Business.
She has been a member of the Academy of International Business since 2014 and presented papers in the first-ever AIB SSA conference held in August 2014 at Riara University. Thereafter, she has attended other AIB conferences including Dubai- 2017 and Kigali – 2018.
Theresa Onaji-Benson
Program Chair
Program Chair
The Program Chair oversees the development of all chapter conference programming for the current year.
Theresa Onaji-Benson
Theresa Onaji-Benson is the manager of the Centre for Dynamic Markets at the Gordon Institute of Business Science, with a focus on African markets. She is passionate about the development of business on the African continent, with particular interests in the influence of non-market strategies and institutions on business in Africa. Her research is at the firm level of analysis and focuses on corporate political strategies and how emerging market multinationals adapt to and influence the risky business environments within which they are located.
She is a doctoral candidate of International Business and Strategy at the Gordon Institute of Business Science and has a master’s degree in Economics and Econometrics from the University of Essex. Apart from her research and academic footprint, Tess has global experience in the financial industry, and Nigerian experience in the privatization of public enterprises
Program Chair
The Program Chair oversees the development of all chapter conference programming for the current year.
Nathaniel Boso
Nathaniel Boso is the Dean at KNUST School of Business, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. He is also a Visiting Professor of Marketing and Entrepreneurship at Strathmore Business School (Kenya). He was previously an Associate Professor at the University of Leeds, UK. His research focuses on the interface between international entrepreneurship, innovation and marketing strategy. His research has won multiple awards, including 2017 Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy Best Conference paper, Best Empirical Paper Award at the 25th United States Association of Small Business & Entrepreneurship Annual Conference, and Nominee for 2014 Academy of International Business Haynes Prize for the Most Promising Scholar Award. Nathaniel has published in leading scholarly journals such as the Journal of Business Venturing (FT 50 Journal and rated 4 in the CABS Journal Quality List), Journal of Product Innovation Management (rated 4 in the CABS Journal Quality List) and Journal of Business Ethics (FT 50 Journal).
He is a regular speaker at international conferences on International Entrepreneurship, Cross-cultural Management, and African International Business issues. Nathaniel sits on the editorial review board of International Marketing Review and Journal of African Business as an Associate Editor. His teaching interests include International Marketing Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and Advanced Research Methods. He is also a specialist educator in Structural Equation Modelling. Nathaniel has also played several academic leadership roles including directorship of postgraduate research in marketing at University of Leeds (United Kingdom), doctoral programme directorship at KNUST and conference chairmanships. He is currently Vice-Chair of Academy of International Business African Chapter. He received his Ph.D. from Loughborough University (AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA Accredited) in 2011, and is a Professional Chartered Marketer at the Chartered Instituting of Marketing in the United Kingdom.