Chukwuemeka Idam runs Saldrey Advisory with great experience over the years in advising businesses on trade policy, designing market entry strategies and helping them overcome regional barriers to trade. Citing the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), America��s first comprehensive trade law with African countries, he has also been instrumental to advising companies leverage the duty -free access to the US market for essentially all African-made products.

Chukwuemeka Idam is recognized as one of the world��s foremost experts on African trade, investment and business facilitation. He has been the prime mover behind a series of unprecedented initiatives within the ECOWAS sub region to enhance trade, investment and economic cooperation between the West and the rest of Sub Saharan Africa.

He has a proven track record of delivering outstanding results and improvements in the areas of Government Relations, Business Strategy improvements, overcoming barriers to trade, advisory on market entry and compliance strategy, business performance improvements, business process reengineering, corporate & international trade law, trade & investment facilitation, crisis management & negotiations, Management Consultancy and Project management.

At Saldrey Advisory, Chukwuemeka is focused on building a consulting firm with the goal of bridging gaps and overcoming trade barriers within the sub-Saharan Africa region. He also advises companies from all over the world, who are interested in doing business in Nigeria.

In addition to running Saldrey Advisory���, Chukwuemeka Idam is also on the board of Seawhale logistics which is a company engaged in providing E2E logistics solutions to companies in the country, and Annia Engineering, where he contributes to steering the company to profitability.

He has been involved in regularly organizing private meetings with key government stakeholders and private clients seeking inroads into the Nigeria and other key ECOWAS countries like Senegal and Cote d�� Ivoire. His main trust is to ensure that he is in the forefront of facilitating and conducting business effectively with the African countries by deploying his unique expertise in that field. A graduate of the prestigious Lagos State University Faculty of Law, he obtained an LLB and a BL from the Nigerian law school in 2002 and 2003 respectively.