Advisors

Advisors and experts

Independent specialists who advise on our studies. They are not staff, and each profile is published with the person's permission.

Prof. Adedeji Julius Ogunleye

Country expert, Nigeria
Professor of Psychology, Ekiti State University · Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria

Adedeji Julius Ogunleye is Professor of Psychology at Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti. His research covers social research and organisational behaviour, including work motivation and performance in the public service, organisational trust and job satisfaction among teachers, burnout among health workers, entrepreneurship, gender and power relations, and the social psychology of the criminal justice system in Nigeria. At PollsAfrica he reviews study design and findings as a named Nigerian expert.

Social research · Organisational behaviour · Public service and workforce studies · Gender · Google Scholar profile · Full profile

Mayowa Babalola, PhD

Advisor, leadership and AI ethics
Professor, Stan Perron Chair in Business Ethics, The University of Western Australia · Perth, Australia

Mayowa Babalola is an organisational psychologist and leadership researcher who works on leadership development, ethical AI adoption and organisational culture. He advises organisations on evidence-based leadership, responsible use of AI and culture change, and has published widely on leadership and ethics. At PollsAfrica he advises on studies of leadership, workplace culture and AI ethics.

Leadership · AI ethics · Organisational culture · Workplace research · Personal website · ORCID · Full profile

Aksshat Goel

Methods advisor
Founder, REDACO Research and Advisory · New Delhi, India

Aksshat Goel is the founder of REDACO Research and Advisory. An IIT Kanpur graduate, he has spent a decade in political and governance research across more than 25 Indian elections. He built and ran a field survey system that reached 20 million voters across 95% of India’s electorate, and specialises in field operations, survey quality control and data analytics, including multilevel regression and post-stratification. At PollsAfrica he advises on survey methods, field quality and analytics.

Survey methods · Field operations · Quality control · MRP and analytics · REDACO · Full profile

Prof. Elias Olukorede Wahab

Member, PollsAfrica Expert Network for Nigeria
Professor of Sociology, Lagos State University · Lagos, Nigeria

Elias Olukorede Wahab is Professor of Sociology at Lagos State University. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Ibadan, specialising in demography and population studies, and his work covers ageing, health-seeking behaviour, social statistics and household survey design. He has served as Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at Lagos State University, and was a Directing Staff member at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies in Kuru, Jos. He has been Principal Researcher on a national household survey on healthy ageing and a consultant researcher on national social cohesion surveys for the Africa Polling Institute, and is a member of the PollsAfrica Expert Network for Nigeria.

Demography and population studies · Ageing and older persons · Health-seeking behaviour · Social statistics and research methods · Household survey design and sampling · LASU profile · ORCID · Full profile

Dr. Mohammed Tukur Saidu

Member, PollsAfrica Expert Network for Nigeria
Senior Lecturer in Economics, Federal University of Education, Zaria · Zaria, Nigeria

Mohammed Tukur Saidu is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the Federal University of Education, Zaria, and chairs its Committee on Research and Seminars. He holds a PhD in Economics from Universiti Putra Malaysia, and his research covers oil prices, exchange rates, inflation and macroeconomic policy in African economies. At PollsAfrica he gives macroeconomic and price context to studies and reviews research design.

Energy economics · Oil price dynamics · Exchange rate volatility · Macroeconomic policy · Economic risk and uncertainty · Sustainable finance in Sub-Saharan Africa · ORCID · Full profile

Dr. Anne Akoya Khasakhala

Member, PollsAfrica Expert Network for Kenya
Adjunct Professor of Demography and Public Health, University of Nairobi · Nairobi, Kenya

Anne Akoya Khasakhala is a demographer with more than 30 years of research and teaching in population and development. She is an Adjunct Professor of Demography and Public Health at the University of Nairobi and was Director of its Population Studies and Research Institute from 2017 to 2022. She holds a PhD in Population Sciences from the International Institute for Population Sciences in Mumbai and an MSc in Medical Demography from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her work covers adolescent and youth health, ageing and social protection, gender, and monitoring and evaluation, and has been commissioned by UNICEF, UNFPA, UN Women and USAID. At PollsAfrica she advises on population context, adolescent and youth research and evaluation design.

Demography and population studies · Adolescent sexual and reproductive health · Ageing and social protection · Monitoring and evaluation · Gender and development · ORCID · Full profile

Prof. Jimoh Amzat

Member, PollsAfrica Expert Network for Nigeria
Professor of Medical Sociology and Social Problems, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto · Sokoto, Nigeria

Jimoh Amzat is Professor of Medical Sociology and Social Problems at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Ibadan and a joint Master's in Bioethics from KU Leuven, Radboud University and the University of Padua, and was an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at Bielefeld. His research covers medical sociology, global health, bioethics and social problems in Africa, and he has written books with Springer and Routledge. He also consults for local and international non-governmental organisations. At PollsAfrica he advises on research ethics, qualitative and mixed-method design and studies in Northern Nigeria.

Survey research · Public health · Social development · Research ethics and bioethics · Medical sociology · Northern Nigeria · Full profile

Isaac Lamba

Member, PollsAfrica Expert Network for Kenya
Principal Statistician, HEREDMA Consultants · Nairobi, Kenya

Isaac Lamba is a statistician based in Nairobi with more than 30 years of experience in household and in-school surveys, data management and monitoring and evaluation. He holds a BSc in Statistics from Moi University and an MSc in Applied Statistics from the University of Nairobi, and has been Principal Statistician at HEREDMA Consultants since 2012. He has worked as statistician and data manager on the nationwide baseline survey on drug abuse in Kenya with the Central Bureau of Statistics, the Behavioural Surveillance Survey in Kenya, a reproductive health baseline in the Dadaab refugee camps and a baseline in Turkana County, and as statistician on the Mwendo baseline survey in Western Kenya. At PollsAfrica he advises on sampling design, weighting and survey analysis.

Survey sampling and weighting · Statistical analysis · Monitoring and evaluation · Data management · Full profile

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