Dr. Oluwakemi Okuwa

Okuwa, Oluwakemi Bolaji is an Associate Research Professor and Head, Modelling Group of the Surveillance and Forecasting Department at the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER) Ibadan, Nigeria. She is the treasurer and member of the Steering Committee of Higher Education Research and Policy Network (HERPNET). She was a short-term consultant to the World Bank, UNDP, ILO country office, DFID/Creative Associate, Action Aid International (Nigeria office)/ Comic-Relief UK on Gender, Education and Labour related issues. She is also a member of the Nigerian Economic Society (NES), Association for the Advancement of African Women Economist (AAAWE), African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Global Development Network (GDN), Women in Management Nigeria (WIMA), a Visiting Research Fellow at the International Monetary Fund Washington D.C and a Research Observer at the Global Development Network.

She possesses over twenty years of research experience in the area of Development, Education and Labour Economics.