Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba is an adjunct research professor at the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and honorary professor at the Thabo Mbeki School of Public and International Affairs, University of South Africa. He earned a PhD in Political Science from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He was previously a visiting scholar at the Program of African Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston and fellow of Brown International Advanced Research Institute, Brown University, Rhode Island, United States of America. Oloruntoba is the author, editor and co-editor of several books including Regionalism and Integration in Africa: EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements and Euro-Nigeria Relations, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2016 and co-editor with Toyin Falola of the Palgrave Handbook of Africa and the Changing Global Order, 2022, among others. His research interests are in Regional Integration, Migration, Democracy and Development, Global Governance of Trade and Finance, Politic
