Chukwunonye Emenalo is a lecturer of financial management at Lagos Business School. His teaching interests are in financial management/corporate finance. His research interests are in understanding the links among institutions, financial system development, and economic development in Africa; and in Law and Finance – more specifically investigating the effects of legal rules, regulations, and other institutional factors on access to finance by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Africa.

He was the winner of the 2018 Lagos Business School (LBS) Beta Gamma Sigma (BGS) Faculty member of the Year award.

He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree (first class honours) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria (UNN); a Master of Research in Management (MRM) degree from IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain; and a PhD in Business Studies degree from University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom. He was awarded the departmental prize as the best final year student of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of UNN in his graduating set.