Professor Adebayo Olukoshi is currently Director of the United Nations African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP) based in New York. He is a Professor of International Economic Relations.

Until March 2009, he was Executive Secretary of the Council for Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Dakar, Senegal. He has also previously served as;

» Director of Research at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) in Lagos

» Senior Research Fellow/Research Programme Coordinator of the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) in Uppsala and;

» Senior Programme Staff at the South Centre in Geneva.

His research interests centre on the politics of economic relations, an area on which he has published extensively. Adebayo Olukoshi graduated from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and Leeds University, England.

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