Oluwasheyi S. Oladipo is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the State University of New York at Old Westbury. She received her PhD in Economics in 2016 from the City University of New York Graduate Center and her Masters from the University of Cambridge, UK in 2001. She has worked extensively in the fields of Development Economics and Finance and has several years of experience providing project coordination, training, research and business advisory services in the public and private sectors in Africa, Europe and the United States.

Her main fields of research are Labor Economics, Economic Development, Applied Econometrics, and Finance.

Oluwasheyi Oladipo joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in February 2020.