Bola Akanji is an associate research professor, Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research. He has a Ph.D. in agricultural economics and works extensively on policy issues as researcher, consultant, trainer, and policy analyst. He works in Nigerian and African development cover areas, such as poverty analysis, market, labor and structural studies in agriculture, liberalization, and commodity pricing policies. He is also involved in gender studies and gender training. Akanji is a member of IWG-GEM and is a fellow and resource person in the gender and macroeconomics course at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Currently, he is actively involved in engendering policy processes in Nigeria, including gender budgeting, gender mainstreaming strategies, engendering policy benchmarking processes, and developing the national gender policy.