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Nigerian visiting scholar to provide a global perspective on gender equity in higher education
KINGSTON, R.I. -- March 29, 2010 -- Distinguished International scholar Bola Akanji, a full research professor from the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, will speak as part of events planned for the inauguration of University of Rhode Island President David M. Dooley.
Akanji will discuss "Gender Equity in Higher Education: Perspectives from the Global South," on Wednesday, April 7, 2010. Free and open to the public, the lecture will be held at Noon at the Center for Biological and Life Sciences on the Kingston Campus. The lecture is one of a series of events planned for the inauguration.
Akanji is actively involved in studying and assessing policy processes in Nigeria that relate to gender, macroeconomics, and sustainable development. Her expertise includes gender budgeting, gender mainstreaming strategies, engendering policy, benchmarking processes, and developing the national gender policy.
She spoke at during the fall semester at URI to groups at URI's Kingston and Providence campus and was very well received. She has since been teaching a course at the University this semester on gender, economics, and Africa's sustainable development.
URI Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Donald DeHayes and the Women's Studies, Department of Economics, and African and African American Studies program are hosting her presentation in honor of the inauguration of President Dooley.
Akanji earned a doctorate in agricultural economics and works extensively on policy issues as researcher, consultant, trainer, and policy analyst. She focuses on Nigerian and African development areas, such as poverty analysis, market, labor and structural studies in agriculture, liberalization, and commodity pricing policies.
She is a member of the International Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics, and International Economics or GEM-IWG, an international network of economists formed in 1994 for the purpose of promoting research, teaching, policy making and advocacy on gender-equitable approaches to macroeconomics, international economics and globalization.
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