Dr. Olumide Abimbola is a political economist and Executive Director of APRI - Africa Policy Research Institute. APRI is a Berlin-based, African think tank set-up to provide evidence-based recommendations to German/EU and African policymakers. He previously worked on trade and regional integration at the African Development Bank. He did his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany and has degrees from the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), Uppsala University (Sweden) and the University of Ibadan (Nigeria).