Olugbenga Ajilore
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Olugbenga Ajilore | |
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| Alma mater | University of California at Berkeley (BA) Claremont Graduate University (PhD) |
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| Discipline | Public Finance, Economics of Crime, Economics of Rural Areas |
| Institutions | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities United States Department of Agriculture Center for American Progress Urban Institute University of Toledo |
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Olugbenga "Gbenga" Ajilore (/ˈbɛŋɡə ˌædʒɪˈlɔːri/ BENG-gə AJ-il-OR-ee)[1] is an American economist who is the Chief Economist at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.[2] Previously, he served as a senior advisor in the Office of the Under Secretary for Rural Development at the United States Department of Agriculture.[3] He has also been employed as a senior economist at the Center for American Progress and as an associate professor of economics at the University of Toledo. He is a past president of the National Economic Association and is a frequent media commentator on the labor market, particularly for Black Americans.[4][5][6][7]
Ajilore grew up in the city of Pasadena and attended Polytechnic School (California),[8] where he was a recipient of the 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award,[9] before earning a B.A. in applied mathematics and economics from the University of California at Berkeley and a PhD in economics from the Claremont Graduate University.[10]
