Sad news broke out early this morning regarding the passing on of Professor Benno Ndulu. Former Governor of the Bank of Tanzania, 2008-2018, he was a distinguished economics professor who was instrumental to the setting of the African Economic Research Consortium. Here at the SOAS Centre for Global Finance, we are blessed to have been able to count Benno as a friend and colleague; we particularly recall his recent participation in the CGF weekly research seminars last year just before the lockdown. Sad loss to the Economics fraternity, Africa and humanity. We send condolences to his family and friends. May his soul rest in peace and rise in glory.