Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka

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Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka
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Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka
Nationality Nigerian
Education Obafemi Awolowo University (B.Sc, Chemical Engineering) University of Toronto (M.Sc, Chemical Engineering) University of Sussex (D.Phil., Development Economics in Industrialization Innovation and Technology Policy)
Occupation(s) Author, and Economist
Organization(s) African Development Bank, United Nations
Known forFirst Nigerian Professor in Industrialization Innovation and Technology Policy
Website banjioyeyinka.com

Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka is a scholar, researcher, a professor and a development economist known for his significant contributions to the fields of economics, innovation, and technology management in developing countries. He is currently the senior special adviser on Industrialization to the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB). [1] [2] [3] [4] He is also a member of the Advisory Council on Industrialization of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and a winner of the National Productivity Order of Merit. [5] [6]

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Early life and education

Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka was born and raised in Nigeria. He holds a B.Sc (first class honours) in Chemical Engineering from the University of Ife, Ile-Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), M.Sc. in Chemical engineering, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and D.Phil. in Development Economics specializing in the Political Economy of Technological Change and Industrialization, University of Sussex, United Kingdom. He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering and Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Chemical Engineering. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

Career

Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka is an academic and administrator, known for his significant contributions to the field of Development Economics in Nigeria and Africa. [12] [13] [14] [15]

He spent six years (2001-2006) as Professor at the United Nations University – Institute for New technologies (UNU-INTECH) where he earned global acclaim for his pioneering work in the field of Industrialization, Technological Change and Innovation Policy. He is the first Nigerian professor in first Nigerian professor in Industrialization Innovation and Technology Policy and a visiting professor at the United Nations University – MERIT, Netherlands and the Open University, UK. [16] [17]

He served at the United Nations (UN) system for 20 years, his last positions been Director, Regional Office for Africa, Chief Scientific Advisor, UN-HABITAT, and Director Monitoring & Research Division. He was Senior Economic Adviser, UN Centre on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva where he coordinated the ten-year review of performance of Least Developed Countries (LDCs). [18] He was also a member of the Governing Council of the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER). [19]

Books and publications

Banji has authored and co-authored over twenty books that have significantly contributed to the field of Development Economics. [20] Here are some of his books:

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  20. ↑ Channels Book Club: Interview With Professor Oyebanji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka Pt.1 . Retrieved 2024-03-31– via www.youtube.com.
  21. ↑ Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Oyebanji; Lal, Kaushalesh (2022). Industrialization and economic diversification : post-crisis development agenda in Asia and Africa. Routledge studies in development economics. London : Routledge. ISBN   978-1-003-24532-2.
  22. ↑ Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Banji (2020). Resurgent Africa: Structural Transformation in Sustainable Development. Anthem Press. ISBN   978-1-78527-344-5.
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  25. ↑ http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/36841/1/12.pdf
  26. ↑ Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Banji (2014). Rich country poor people: Nigeria's story of poverty in the midst of plenty. Lagos?: Technopol Publishers. ISBN   978-978-8013-42-6.
  27. ↑ Oyelaren-Oyeyinka, Banji; Rasiah, Rajah (2009). "Uneven Paths of Development". Books.
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  29. ↑ Sampath, Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Padmashree Gehl (2009-11-15). Latecomer Development: Innovation and Knowledge for Economic Growth. London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203865729. ISBN   978-0-203-86572-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  30. ↑ Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Oyebanji; Gehl Sampath, Padmashree (2009). The gene revolution and global food security : biotechnology innovation in latecomers. Houndmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN   978-0-230-22882-5.
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  32. ↑ Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Oyebanji; Technology, Maastricht Economic and Social Research and Training Centre on Innovation and (2006). Learning to compete in African industry :: institutions and technology in development /: Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka. Ashgate. ISBN   978-0-7546-4643-3.
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