A 1989 doctorate graduate in Economics from Queen Mary College, University of London, Dr. Salami is a well experienced economist. He is currently Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of KAINOS Edge Consulting Ltd. - a Management Consulting firm focussed on goods and service markets research. He has recently returned to this role after completing an 18mth stint as Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) to President Mohammadu Buhari. 

Formal education for Doyin included the International Women’s School (IWS), Mainland Preparatory Primary School (MPPS), Igbobi College Yaba (ICY) and Queen Mary College, University of London where he earned the Bachelor of Science (BSc), Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Economics. 

His work experience started at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) which he combined with working in his family’s trading business. He left the family business in 1998 to build a career, over the subsequent three-and-half decades, that has spanned academics, consulting, public policymaking, policy advocacy and corporate leadership.

He joined the Lagos Business School in 1998 and spent the next twenty years teaching and undertaking research and consulting work. Though he left the fulltime faculty of the LBS in 2017, he continues to teach economics as an adjunct member of that faculty.

Beyond teaching and consulting, Dr. Salami has also been involved in public policy as an advocate and an adviser in government. Some of the highlights of his involvement in policy making include: (a)involvement with the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) culminating in membership of its board of directors until 2022; (b) appointment, in 2009, a member of the Federal Government of Nigeria’s Economic Management Team by HE President Umar Yar’Adua; (c) appointment to membership of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in January 2010 - he successfully served 2 terms of 4years each; (d) Beyond Nigeria, he was also a member of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Advisory Group for Sub-Saharan Africa. 

Returning to the domestic policy space, Doyin was appointed Chairman of the Presidential Economic Advisory Council by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019. He subsequently became Chief Economic Adviser to the President. A role that ended in 2023.

In addition to leading KAINOS Edge Consulting Ltd., Doyin’s involvement in corporate leadership include roles as Chairman, Board of Directors of Prestige Assurance Plc. and ARM-Investment Managers Ltd. He was also a non-executive director on the Boards of companies which include Access Pension Fund Custodian Ltd.; First World Communities Ltd; and Investment Securities Ltd. Presently he leads the board of Dryva Logistics Ltd