BIOGRAPHY

Omolola Smaria Olarinde (PhD. Econ, Ibadan) is University based Researcher working on migration governance, location effects of migration, and returns to migration, in relation to inclusive growth and development; part of her work is located within the migrant identity and decolonialisation context. Her current research work is with the Migration for Inclusive African Growth (MIAG) network where a group of scholars under the Open University, United Kingdom are using detailed mixed methodologies to examine the contribution of immigrants to inclusive growth in Africa. She reviewed the performance of Migrant Resource Centres in Nigeria for the International Labour Organisation in May 2020 as well as a resource person for the training workshop for tripartite partners of the ILO on migration in the context of Covid-19, in July 2021. She documented the profiles, motivations, routes, and risks of mixed migrants from, within and to Nigeria for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 2018. She started her academic career at the Afe Babalola University in 2010 and joined the Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin in 2013. Her career as an economist began with the Louis Berger Group in Bucharest in 2003. She is a member, Network of Migration Research for Africa (NOMRA) and of the Nigerian Economic Society (NES), an associate editor for the African Review of Economics and Finance and a Research Fellow with the Institute for Oil and Gas, Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development (OGEES), Afe Babalola University.