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Benno, more importantly, was instrumental in building the capacity of generations of African economists and has been described by the Chief Economist for the Africa Region at the World Bank, Dr. The Economic Advisor. CEoG is a network of chief economic advisors from over 40 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Benno, as co-founder and expert member of the network, provided advice and feedback to current chief economic advisors, and was working with us at CEoG, along with a couple of other emeritus members, to document his own experience as chief economic advisor to governments across the continent.

As Albert Zeufack has recently remarked, although we will struggle to complete this work without Benno, we must nevertheless finish it in his honor. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item. Tanzanian academic — Career [ edit ].

References [ edit ]. Archived from the original on 13 December He was a true public servant, deferential to everyone in his urgent desire to support progress, when others in his position might have demanded deference to themselves. A nd at the same time as all the above he had at least four day jobs he was still writing papers, tending to his farm in the countryside when he got the opportunity, mentoring various policy leaders across Africa, and running 10k daily.

It was both and honour and a delight to work with him and we will miss him enormously, personally and professionally. Benno was appointed Governor of the Central Bank of Tanzania in January and remained in post until He started his career at the University of Dar es Salaam in the early s before joining the World Bank as a lead economist covering east Africa.

Benno is well known for his involvement in setting up and developing one of the most effective research and training networks in Africa, the African Economic Research Consortium. He served as its first Research Director and later as its Executive Director. Inhe received an honorary doctorate from the International Institute of Social Studies ISS in The Hague in recognition of his contributions to capacity-building and research on Africa.