Danelee Masia

Danelee Masia

Chief Economist, South Africa & Nigeria, Deutsche Bank

Danelee Masia is a practicing economist at a leading global investment bank, where she covers the South African economy and other Sub-Saharan African countries.

During her term at Deutsche Bank, Johannesburg, she was co-head of the South African equities research team, which ranked highly in domestic and institutional investor surveys.

She started her career in 2004 as a retail credit analyst at Nedbank, before she moved to the Treasury division in 2005, where her love for capital markets began.

In 2006 she joined Standard Bank Group and became head of economic research in 2007. Danelee graduated from the University of Johannesburg in 2007 with a Masters in Financial Economics (Cum Laude).

Danelee is a member of the International Board of Standards of the ICCE.