Assistant Professor of Economics Michael Olabisi Named Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow
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Michael Olabisi, assistant professor of economics at the Graziadio School of Business
and Management, will be one of 59 African-born scholars based in the United States
and Canada traveling to Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda
for 14 to 90 days as a Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow to conduct academic projects
at host universities in those countries.
The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program is designed to avert Africa’s brain
drain, build capacity at the host institutions, and develop long-term, mutually beneficial
collaborations among universities in Africa, the United States, and Canada.
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