Clementine Wallop
“Our work on sub-Saharan Africa is constantly surprising, challenging and illuminating. I enjoy interpreting what an apparently small signal – a trip to a different part of a country, a choice of attire, an extended period of vacation – might mean in the bigger picture for our clients.”
clementine’S story
Clementine Wallop is our director for sub-Saharan Africa, and has been leading our Nigeria research since 2019.
Based in London and previously in Abuja, she has been working on Nigeria for the last decade, helping investors understand its business environment. A frequent visitor to Nigeria, her Letters from Lagos show our clients the importance of details to decoding Africa’s biggest oil producer at a time of rapid regional shifts in the energy industry.
Her work has informed major deals and strategic business decisions. She is regularly quoted on Nigerian business and politics in international media.
Before Nigeria, Clementine worked as a journalist in Singapore, where she covered commodities for Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal. She started her career at Metal Bulletin, now Fastmarkets, where she reported on metal markets and went down mines now crucial to the energy transition.
Clementine has an MA in English from Magdalen College, Oxford.