About

Haruna Emmanuel Umoru has over 12 years of experience as Senior Policy & Research Analyst at the Department of Economic Growth, Nigeria’s Ministry of Budget & National Planning where, he is responsible for designing socio-economic plans and policy programming at the federal, states, and local government levels. Since joining the Governments’ Think-Tank Plans & Policies, he has worked with a number of local and international non-profit organizations on various programs covering health, poverty, social policy, education and trade policy issues. He is currently a PhD Student in Development Economics at Kobe University. His current research investigates the linkages between financial development and the informal economy; examining the relationship between informal microenterprise and credit market development. He focuses more on evidence-based policy research; linking research outputs to effective policy/program implementation and evaluation. He is a member of Mandela Washington fellow for young African leaders, a fellow of YALI Regional Leadership Center, a scholar of KOICA, and a scholar of MEXT.