PROFESSOR KAYODE ADEGBOLA FAMILONI is a distinguished Nigerian economist and Chairman/Chief Consultant Economist of KAFA Global Services Ltd. Over a five-decade career, he has held faculty appointments at Duquesne University, the University of Pittsburgh, Miami University (where he became the inaugural Director of Black Studies in 1971), Howard University and the University of Lagos. A sought-after mentor, he has supervised generations of postgraduate students in economics who now occupy strategic positions across Nigeria’s public and private sectors.