Editorial Board

    • EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
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      Prof. Jones Odei Mensah

      jones.odei-mensah@wits.ac.za

      Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

      Jones Odei-Mensah is an Associate Professor of Economics and Finance at the Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand. His research interests lie at the intersection of finance and macroeconomics, with particular focus on financial interconnectedness, international trade, and macroeconomic policy. He has recently studied the optimal financing of fiscal deficits, systemic interconnectedness among banking institutions, market comovement, and the impact of commodity shocks on business cycles.

      He is the Editor of the Ghanaian Journal of Economics, the International Editor of the Colombo Business Journal, and serves on several editorial boards.

      He is a Director of Training at AREF Consult, a research and policy network, and he has consulted widely for leading international organisations. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the African Review of Economics and Finance.

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    • EDITOR
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      Dr Hebatallah Ghoneim

      hebatallah.ghoneim@guc.edu.eg

      Dr Hebatallah Ghoneim. Heba is an economic lecturer at the German University in Cairo (GUC). She has obtained her bachelor degree in Economics from Cairo University, Master of Arts degree from American university in Cairo and PHD degree from German University in Cairo. Her research effort have been mainly focusing on welfare programs, international trade, foreign direct investment and Islamic economics, mainly interested in MENA region.

      She has also recently contributed in a research project with ILO in an attempt to provide a descriptive report about collective bargaining agreements in Egypt.

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    • ASSOCIATE EDITORS
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      Odile Mackett

      emackeo1@unisa.ac.za

      Odile Mackett is a lecturer and PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand's School of Governance.
      Her PhD research focuses on the International Labour Organisation's Decent Work Agenda and the implications the traditional framing of 'work' is likely to have for gender equality in the labour market; given the different types of activities men and women engage in on a daily basis.

      More generally, her research interests include social security, which is closely linked to access to the labour market, and the importance this has for poverty and inequality outcomes. Current ongoing projects include an investigation of household composition changes, the effects thereof on labour market attachment, and its implications for the efficacy of South Africa's social security programmes.
      Odile is an associate editor for the African Review of Economics and Finance as well as an associate member of the Pan-African Scientific Research Council.

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      Prof. Kingsley Dogah

      Kingsley.Dogah@nottingham.edu.cn

      Dr. Kingsley E. Dogah joined the Nottingham University Business School (NUBS), China as an Assistant Professor of Economics in September 2023. Before joining NUBS, he worked as an assistant professor at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) and was an Honorary Lecturer at University of Liverpool. Dr. Dogah has also formerly worked as Research Analyst at The Economist Group within the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), in Singapore after completion of his Ph.D. in Economics degree.

      His research interest is in applied macroeconomics with a special focus on the intersection of energy and environmental economics (including sustainability development), energy transition economics and energy poverty, climate economics, emerging markets, and applied macroeconomics (including financial and development economics). Kingsley's research outputs are published in reputable journals including Energy Economics, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Journal of Environmental Economics, Energy Research and Social Sciences, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, and Economic Modelling. Dr. Dogah is currently an Associate Editor for the African Review of Economics and Finance journal.

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      Dr Omolola Olarinde

      omolola.olarinde@elizadeuniversity.edu.ng

      Omolola Olarinde, BSc. (Econ., Bucharest), MSc. MPhil (Econ., Ibadan) writes on migration and is particularly interested in its determinants, patterns, and effects on the sending economy. She documented the profiles, motivations, routes and risks of mixed migrants from, within and to Nigeria for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. She has also worked on international research funded by the Department for International Development (DFID, UK Government) and the African Program for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC, WHO).

      She has lectured in the Economics department since 2010 and currently teaches international economics and various other subjects at the Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin. Topics she has written on include: the effects of workers’ remittances on economic development in Nigeria, legal and institutional sustainability standards of biofuel production in Nigeria, and the implications of government expenditure for economic growth evidence.

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      Professor Martin Breitenbach

      martin.breitenbach@up.ac.za

      Research Interests: Economic Impact Assessment with Specific Reference to Public Project Appraisal and Regional Economic Impact Assessment; Economic-, Agricultural-, Rural-, and Local Economic Development



       

       

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      Dr. Peterson Owusu Junior

      Peterson.owusu@ucc.edu.gh

      Peterson Owusu Junior is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Finance, School of Business, University of Cape Coast in Ghana and a Post-doctoral Fellow at the School of Construction Economics, University of the Witwatersrand. Dr. Owusu Junior is also widely published across finance, economics, and related journals. He is a Junior Editor at the Journal of Real Estate Practice and Education (JREPE), an Associate Editor at African Review of Economic & Finance, an Editorial Board Member with Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, and an Editorial Review Board Member - IIMBG Journal of Sustainable Business and Innovation. He acts as ad-hoc reviewer for many top-tier journals. He has won the Best College-Level (College of Humanities and Legal Studies) Researcher Award consecutively for 2022 and 2023 at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana.

      He is also a Principal Consultant at the African Review of Economics and Finance Consult (AREFC) and has consulted for a number of governmental and global organisations including the Bank of Ghana (BoG), African Export-Import Bank (AFREXIMBANK), International Financial Corporation (IFC), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and the Electricity Control Board of Namibia.

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    • Editorial Assistant
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      Damien Kunjal

      damien.kunjal7@gmail.com

      Damien Kunjal is a lecturer in the Department of Business Management at the University of the Free State, South Africa. At present, he holds a B.Com in Finance and Business Management (Cum Laude), B.Com Honours in Finance (Cum Laude), and M.Com in Finance (Cum Laude), and he is currently pursuing a Ph.D in Finance at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

      His research interests include, but are not limited to; corporate finance, investor and managerial behaviour, financial risk management, and investment management and portfolio optimization.

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    • Emeritus Editor-in-Chief
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      Professor Imhotep Paul Alagidede

      Imhotep.alagidede@wits.ac.za

      Imhotep Alagidede is a Metaeconomist at the Nile Valley Multiversity, Professor of Finance at the University of the Witwatersrand, and the Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies. He is also the Executive Director of AREF Consult, the President, and CEO of the Nile Valley Group of companies. He has over two decades experience in the teaching and research in applied economics, policy evaluation, modelling and forecasting. He has held several visiting and permanent professorship positions in leading academic institutions in the UK, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Mauritius, and Ghana.

      Imhotep has published widely in leading international peer reviewed journals, and is the Grand Editor of the multidimensional Journal of Indigenous and Shamanic Studies. He has mentored a large number of pre-doctoral, doctoral and post-doctoral fellows, and consulted widely for governments, multilateral agencies and blue-chip corporations.

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      Prof. Franklin Obeng-Odoom

      franklin.obeng-odoom@helsinki.fi

      Franklin Obeng-Odoom is Associate Professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Franklin Obeng-Odoom is Associate Professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Obeng-Odoom's research interests are centred on the political economy of development, urban and regional economics, natural resources and the environment, fields in which he has published six sole-authored books, including Global Migration Beyond Limits (Oxford University Press, 2022), The Commons in an Age of Uncertainty (University of Toronto Press, 2021), and Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2020), a winner of the European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy Joan Robinson Best Book Prize.

      Obeng-Odoom is the Global South Editor of Housing Studies, Associate Editor of the Forum for Social Economics , and Series Editor of the Edinburgh Studies in Urban Political Economy.

      Dr Obeng-Odoom is one of the world's leading social scientists. He is an Inaugural International Science Council World Social Science Fellow. He has been elected to the Fellowship of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, becoming the youngest Fellow of the oldest learned society in postcolonial Africa. He has recently been named a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences , an esteem conferred on only 1% of social scientists in the world.

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    • INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD

      Prof Augustin K. Fosu, ISSER, University of Ghana, Ghana

      Prof. Ingrid Woolard, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

      Prof. Waaseem Mina, United Arab Emirates University, UAE

      Prof. Theodore Panagiotidis, University of Macedonia, Greece

      Prof. Jane Kabubo-Mariara, University of Nairobi, Kenya

      Prof Yaw Debra, Swansea University, UK

      Prof Kalu Ojah, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

      Prof. Felix O. Ayadi, Texas Southern University, USA

      Prof. Samuel Laryea, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

      Prof. Caroline Hossein, University of Toronto, Canada

      Prof. Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University, USA

      Prof. Abdallah Zouache, Sciences Po, France

      Prof. Zeremariam Fre, UCL, University of London, UK

      Prof. Wadjamsse B. Djezou, University of Bouake, Cote d'Ivoire

      Prof. Simplice Asongu, University of Buea, Cameroon

      Prof. Collins Ntim Gyakari, University of Southampton, UK

      Prof. Heba Helmy, October University for Modern Sciences and Arts , Egypt

      Prof. George Bob-Milliar, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana

      Dr. Kenneth Soyeh, University of Wisconsin Whitewater, USA

      Dr. Nana Akua Anyidoho, ISSER, University of Ghana, Ghana

      Dr. Alice Nicole Sindzingre, National Centre for Scientific Research, EconomiX, France

      Dr. Hassan A. Ahmad, Loughborough University, UK

      Dr. Simeon Coleman, Loughborough University, UK

      Dr. Renee Horne, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

      Dr. Raymond Talinbe Abdulai, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

      Dr. Nathaniel Ojong, York University, Canada

      Dr. Koen Smet, WU Vienna, Austria

      Dr. Yoon Jung Park, Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Network, Johns Hopkins University, and Georgetown University, USA

      Dr. Ferdi Botha, University of Melbourne, Australia

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