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Professor Oluyele Akinwalie Akinkugbe (Olu) is the Founding Dean of the School of Business. Professor Akinkugbe has over 37 years of academic experience, and is joining our university from Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Canada where he taught Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and Canadian Problems and Policies. Professor Akinkugbe’s academic engagements include service to several universities and other knowledge institutions in the Southern African Region as external examiner and reviewer; he remains a Visiting Professor of Economics at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Professor Akinkugbe has held various academic leadership positions over the past three decades. He served as Head of Departments in several Universities and as Dean of the largest Faculty at the University of Namibia (UNAM)—Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences.
Further, as a young graduate student—he was an integral part of the Ford Foundation sponsored LINK Project, a research network of model builders of which CEAR was a participating member. His Doctoral thesis on Applied Econometrics, nestled on the LINK project, and was anchored on a 197-equation macro-model of the Nigerian Economy. LINK was at that time initiated and coordinated by the late 1980 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Professor Lawrence Klein of the University of Pennsylvania; it is now operated by the United Nations.
Professor Oluyele Akinwalie Akinkugbe is the Founding Dean of the School of Business. Professor Akinkugbe has over 37 years of academic experience, and is joining our university from Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Canada where he taught Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and Canadian Problems and Policies. Professor Akinkugbe’s academic engagements include service to several universities and other knowledge institutions in the Southern African Region as external examiner and reviewer.
The Dean of James Hope University Business School provides leadership and vision to the school’s administration. He is the principal administrator and is responsible for organizing and implementing the business school vision and mission. He maintains contact with key university stakeholders and is responsible to the Board of Trustees and Senior University Leadership.
Professor Akinkugbe is a prolific academician with a substantial number of papers in international peer reviewed Journals. He has edited Books, attended several academic conferences and workshops in Africa, Europe, North America, and Asia. As a seasoned teacher, he taught undergraduate and graduate students at Universities in Nigeria, Zambia, Swaziland (Eswatini), Botswana, South Africa—Rhodes University & University of the Witwatersrand—Namibia and Canada—Acadia University, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Mount Saint Vincent University & Saint Mary’s University.
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