Afolabi Emmanuel Olowookere is the Managing Director and Chief Economist of Analysts’ Data Services and Resources (ADSR). Before now, he was at different times the Head of Economic Research and Policy Management at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Nigeria, a Research Economist at the World Bank, the Head of Economic Research and Publications at Financial Derivatives Company (FDC) and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Econometrics and Allied Research (CEAR), University of Ibadan. Afolabi holds a Doctoral Degree in Economics from the University of Ibadan under the African Economic Research Consortium’s sponsored Collaborative PhD. Programme (CPP) in Sub-Saharan Africa. He is a Senior Faculty Member at the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) and also teaches at the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Collaborative Postgraduate Programme in the Department of Economics, University of Ibadan. Dr Olowookere is an associate of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers, a member of the Research Committee of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) and a member of the Productive Capacities Index (PCI) Statistical and Technical Task Team of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). He served on various committees that worked on macroeconomic modelling and drafted the National Development Plan (2021-2025) and Nigeria Agenda 2050. Afolabi has published widely in his field with experience working and consulting for various international and local institutions in the areas of Economics, Finance and Data Analysis.

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