Professor Olukoya Ogen
Prof. Olukoya Ogen obtained his PhD degree in History from
the University of Lagos as well as a Certificate in Trade,
Growth and Poverty from the World Bank Institute, Washington
DC in 2006. He was a Leventis Scholar at the University of
London in 2008; a British Academy Visiting Fellow at the
University of Birmingham in 2009; a Cadbury Visiting Fellow
in 2010; and an American Council of Learned Societies
Postdoctoral Fellow in 2011. He was also the Country
Director and Co-Investigator of a European Research Council
Grant from 2012 to 2017. He was awarded the University of
Leeds' LUCAS-LAHRI Visiting Fellowship in 2022. He also won
the prestigious UNESCO International Fund for Cultural
Diversity grant in 2023 among other research grants. He
specialises in the sociocultural and economic history of
Nigeria.