Professor Olusanya Elisa Olubusoye joins the GIL faculty from the University of Ibadan’s Centre for Petroleum, Energy Economics and Law (CPEEL).
He teaches Applied Econometrics at the university and is a Senior Research Fellow at its Centre for Econometric and Allied Research (CEAR). From 2009 to 2011 he was Acting Head of the Department of Statistics. He has also taught at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia and at the Pan African University Institute for Basic Sciences, Technology and Innovation in Kenya.
His research is in macroeconometric modelling, applied Bayesian analysis and statistical simulation. He holds a PhD and is a Chartered Statistician of the Royal Statistical Society.
Outside the university, he has been a consultant or research fellow for the MacArthur Foundation, the African Union, the African Economic Research Consortium and the Lagos State Government, where he worked on World Bank-funded data and service-delivery projects. In 2006 he was a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund.
He is a member of the Royal Statistical Society, the African Econometric Society, the Nigerian Statistical Association and the Nigeria Group of the International Biometric Society.
