14th – 15th OCTOBER 2025 | LONDON
Ayo Salami 2024 Speaker

Chief Investment Officer
Emerging Markets Investment Management Ltd
Biography
Dr Ayo Salami been involved in researching and investing in financial markets for over 30 years and has acquired substantial knowledge and experience on Emerging Market economies and companies. Ayo was named Chief Investment Officer of the year at the Investment Excellence Awards in 2014. Ayo has worked at Emerging Markets Investment Management Ltd (EMIM) since 2007, where he has been involved in the management of several investment strategies including Long Only Equities and, Emerging Market Income. Ayo has substantial experience as a practioner in the financial markets where he was involved in originating and structuring corporate acquisitions, capital raising via initial public offerings, developing and working with complex cashflow models and the use of advanced valuation methodologies. In the early years of his career, Ayo worked at Nomura International where he was the senior equity analyst. He initiated Nomura’s coverage of Africa and over the years has acquired substantial knowledge and experience on African economies and companies. Ayo has been a lecturer at Kingston University Business School, Cass Business School, Birbeck College University of London. His area of teaching covers corporate finance, financial management, and financial market analysis on both undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes. Ayo’s academic research examines the impact of merger activity on shareholder wealth and corporate performance and the behaviour of equity markets in emerging economies. Ayo has published in leading academic journals on the financing, post-merger performance and sources of synergy in corporate takeovers. Ayo is a Chartered Accountant (ICAEW). Ayo obtained his BA Economics degree from Leeds University, MSc in Accounting and Finance degree from London School of Economics and PhD from City University
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