Nkechi S. Owoo

Professor of Economics
University of Ghana

nkechi.owoo@gmail.com

Field of Study: Economics
 
Specialization: Economic Demography, Fertility, Income, Poverty and Welfare, Labor force/Employment, Population and Development, Population and Environment, Spatial Analysis (and Geographic Information)
 
Regional focus: Sub-Saharan Africa
 
Education: Doctorate (Ph.D, or MD), , Economics, 2012
 
Working languages: English
 
Other association membership in population or related fields: Population Association of America (PAA), Union for African Population Studies (UAPS)


Curriculum Vitae:
CV_Nkechi S. Owoo.pdf
Professional web page:
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Professional Summary:

Development Economist and Professor of Economics with expertise in health and demographic economics, gender, climate risk, and applied econometrics. She has a strong track record of leading high-impact research and advising governments and international organizations on poverty, labour markets, and climate policy across Africa. She is a Principal and Co-Principal Investigator on multi-million-dollar international research programmes, including World Bank and Wellcome Trust–funded initiatives, and has contributed as a lead author to flagship global reports for the United Nations Environment Programme (Global Environment Outlook 7), UNICEF, and the Population Institute. Her work combines rigorous causal inference methods with policy-oriented economic analysis to generate decision-relevant evidence, and she serves in editorial leadership roles across leading journals in population, gender, and development economics.