Our History

In 1993, a group of passionate and concerned private sector leaders representing key economic sectors conceived the Nigerian Economic Summit (NES) and sustained it as a platform for bringing together private sector leaders and senior public sector officials to discuss and dialogue on the future of the Nigerian Economy.

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The Evolution of the NESG

The Economic Summit and the NESG has evolved through four (4) critical phases and each phase illustrates the State of the Nigerian Economy, the State of Development of Evidence-based Policy Making in Nigeria, the State of Maturity of the Nigerian Economy with respect to the six aforementioned principles and that of the Institution of the NESG

PRE-NESG PHASE (THE 1985 – 1996)

Military state-capture, Military dictatorships, Collapsed country status

THE INFANCY/CLOSED ECONOMY PHASE (1996-1999)

Closed economy and the era of the 2010 agenda

THE EARLY OPENING-UP PHASE (1999 – 2007)

Opening the Nigerian Economy through Commercialization, Liberalization and Privatization Policy Reforms

THE VISION 2020 ERA (2007 – 2019)

Implementation phase of the Vision 2020, global financial crisis

2019 FORWARD (SETTING THE VISION 2050 AGENDA)

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The Summit House 6, Oba Elegushi Close, off Oba Adeyinka Oyekan Avenue, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria

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4th Floor, Unity Bank Tower Plot 785, Herbert Macaulay Way, Abuja, Nigeria.

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The Nigerian Economic Summit Group is a non-profit, non-partisan private-sector led think tank with a mandate to promote and champion the reform of the Nigerian economy into a modern globally competitive, sustainable, inclusive, open economy.