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Ayodele Idowu

Economist & Data Scientist

My name is Ayodele Idowu. I am a Doctoral Researcher (PhD Candidate) in Economics at the Chair of Food Economics and Policy, University of Göttingen, working on a DFG-funded project on the interactions between standards, international trade, and commodity markets.

My research focuses on the interactions among international trade, trade-related environmental policy, and agricultural markets, examining how standards, regulations, and economic incentives shape international commodity markets and economic welfare across firms and developing and developed economies. I combine structural gravity models, quasi-experimental designs, and machine learning methods on large trade and geospatial datasets.

Before my doctorate, I worked as a Data Scientist at TNI Network Inc. (Canada) and as a Research Data Analyst at Novartis (Nigeria), building predictive models and analytics pipelines in Python, R, and SQL. I hold an MSc in Development Economics from the University of Göttingen as a DAAD Scholar, and a BSc (Hons) in Economics from the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria.