Professor in the Department of Accounting, Covenant University, Nigeria (Co-Investigator)
Prof. Olubukunola Uwuigbe is a professor in the Department of Accounting, at Covenant University, Nigeria. She has served in various capacities which include, but are not limited to the following: Head, Department of Accounting, Covenant University; She was also Chairman, College of Business and Social Sciences Vision 10:2022 committee, 2018-2021; She is currently the sub-head, research cluster on Corporate Governance and Accounting Ethics. In her professional quests, she is an Associate member of Chartered Management Accountant (CIMA, UK); Associate Member, Chartered Global Management Accountants (CGMA); Associate Member, of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (ACTI); Fellow International Institute of Certified Forensic Investigation (FCFIP). She is also a Fellow, of the Association of Forensic Accounting Researchers.
She is a recipient and lead researcher of the 2020/2021 grant for the Africa Call for Accounting & Finance Research Initiative, by the Pan African Federation of Accountants and the African Accounting and Finance Association. She is the chair of the 2022 book project for the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria. Olubukunola is a member of the Program advisory committee, at Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia. She is an external examiner at the University of Johannesburg and the University of South Africa. She is a book reviewer for one of the best booksellers in the world (Springer Nature). She is an associate lecturer for the CBN-Collaborative Postgraduate Program. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Walter Sisulu University.
Prof. Uwuigbe has several articles in learned journals and chapters in books. She is among the top 20 most productive Nigerian researchers in Business and Economics in 2021 as ranked by the Alper-Doger (AD) Scientific Index ranking of Economists.