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About the school

Professor Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba

Name Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba
Highest qualification PhD (University of Lagos, Nigeria)
Position Honorary Professor
Contact details samuelojooloruntoba@cunet.carleton.ca
Research interests/expertise Political economy of development in Africa; global governance of trade and finance; politics of natural resources governance; democracy and development
Teaching African Political Economy; African International Trade; Global Economic Relations; African Social and Political Thought
Current projects Natural resources governance and sustainable development in southern Africa: Exploring regional integration approaches, funded by the NRF, South Africa.

Short biography

Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba is Adjunct Research Professor at the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa (Ontario, Canada) and Honorary Professor at the TM-School (Unisa), where he was previously Associate Professor. He obtained a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Lagos (Nigeria). Formerly a Visiting Scholar at the Program of African Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, he is an alumnus of Brown International Advanced Research Institute (Brown University, Rhode Island). Oloruntoba is the author, editor and co-editor of several books, and his research interests include the political economy of development in Africa, regional integration, migration, democracy and development, global governance of trade and finance, the politics of natural resources governance and EU–Africa relations.

Selected publications