Gbadebo Odularu has thirty years of multi-country-university teaching, research, and practice experience from Howard University, Princeton University Pan-African Scientific Research Council, Virginia Military Institute, Bay Atlantic University, Marymount University, China Agricultural University, Lund University, and Covenant University. He holds a PhD from the University of Sunderland, United Kingdom, an M.Sc (Agricultural Economics), and a B.Sc (Economics) from the pre-eminent Nigerian University of Ibadan. He is the President of the No Hunger Food Bank and the Washington, DC-based nonprofit organization – African Finance and Economic Association (AFEA).
In addition to being one of the Nigerian Association of Macroeconomic Modelers (NAMN) leaders with over 200 publications, he has been a visiting scholar at the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK); Centre for Regional Economic Studies (CRES), Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP), Seoul, South Korea; United Nations Institute for Economic Development Planning (UNIDEP), Dakar, Senegal; and the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment (SSEE), University of Oxford, UK. He was also the 2008 visiting scholar at the Economic Research and Statistical Division (ERSD), World Trade Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland.