Melvin Ayogu was a fellow in the Africa Growth Initiative. His work focused on growth, governance, export structure, economic development, and value recovery of stolen assets.
Experience
Current Positions
- Principal, Human Enterprise Research, December 2010 - Present
Past Positions
- Director, Global Leadership Centre, Standard Bank Group, 2009 - 2010
- Dean, Faculty of Commerce, University of Cape Town, 2006 - 2009
- Director, School of Economics, University of Cape Town, 2006
- Teaching and Research, (Professor), School of Economics, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 2002 - 2005
- Teaching and Research, (Visiting Associate Professor), School of Economics, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 2000 - 2001
- Research, Visiting Scholar, Center for International Development, Harvard University, and concurrently, Senior Rockefeller African Humanities Institute Fellow, Harvard University, 2000
- Teaching and Research, (Associate Professor) Department of Accounting and Management Sciences, University of Jos, 1998 - 2001
- Lecturer, Collaborative MA Program, AERC Joint Facility For Electives, Nairobi Kenya, Summer 1997 & 1998
- Head, Department of Accounting and Management Sciences, University of Jos
- 1994 - 1998
- Coordinator MBA Program, Department of Accounting and Management Sciences, University of Jos, 1992 - 1993
- Teaching and Research, (Senior Lecturer) Department of Accounting and Management Sciences, University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria, September 1992 - December 1997
- Teaching and Research, (Assistant Professor) Department of Economics, College of Business, James Madison University, 1989 - 1992
- Reconciler I, Micro Processing Center, Bank One, 1984 - 1985
- Graduate Teaching Associate, The Ohio State University, 1984 - 1989
Education
- Ph.D., Economics, The Ohio State University, 1989
- M.A., Economics, The Ohio State University, 1986
- B.A., Economics (summa cum laude), California State University, Northridge, 1984
- AA(Hons), Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, California, 1982
- ACIB, The Chartered Institute of Bankers, London, 1979