Chinemelu Okafor
 

I study politics and economics in West Africa.

 
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I Quantitatively explore how the cultural and institutional legacies of pre-colonial (and colonial) events continue to shape political and economic development in West africa.

 

I am a third-year PhD
candidate in the Government Department at Harvard.

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ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS

I am a Graduate Student Associate with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard, a Research Collaborator with the Wheeler Institute for Business and Development at London Business School, and a Graduate Student Affiliate at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard.

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ACADEMIC SERVICE

I am the founder and president of the Research in Color Foundation®— a Forbes 30 under 30 awarded, 501c(3) non-profit dedicated to improving the number and increasing the retention of historically excluded scholars in economics and economics-adjacent fields through mentorship and financial support.

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