Nkechi S. Owoo is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Ghana. She is also a Research Associate with the Ghana node of the African Centre of Research on Inequality Research (ACEIR) and a Senior Research Fellow at the Environment for Development institute. She also functions as a Research Fellow at the Population Institute, based in Washington DC, USA; the University of Pretoria at Future Africa; is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Bristol, UK; and represents the Africa region on the Council of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) for the period 2022 – 2025.

Her research focuses on spatial econometrics in addition to poverty and inequality, health and demographic economics, as well as environmental sustainability, more recently. 

She received her Masters and PhD in Economics from Clark University, Massachusetts, in 2009 and 2012, respectively.