Matthew Odedokun – Technical Adviser, Debt Management Office, Presidency of
the Federal Republic of Nigeria
Matthew Odedokun had over a decade of his post-doctoral working experience
teaching in universities and working in specialized research institutions in Africa and
Middle-East. He was also once an economist with the International Monetary Fund
(IMF), Washington DC and lately, a Research Fellow and Project Director at the
United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economics Research
(UNU-WIDER), Helsinki, from where he took up his current assignment as a technical
adviser at the Debt Management Office in the Presidency of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria. He has written/edited books and published extensively in academic journals
on international development issues, particularly on external debt and international
development resource transfers.