Dr Uyi Lawani

Dr. Uyi Lawani has been a university teacher since 2006. He is currently an Associate Professor of Strategic Management in the Lewis College of Business at Marshall University. He has previously been an Assistant Professor of Business at Concordia University, Wisconsin. He earned a PhD in Strategy and Economics as a Toulouse Fellow at the University of North Texas. He holds an MBA in Finance from East Carolina University and a BSc in Microbiology from the University of Benin in his native Nigeria. He started his career as a soldier in the Nigerian Army, after which he worked as a Research and Development Chemist in UACN which was Nigeria’s biggest business conglomerate at the time, and then as a banking executive in a couple of Nigerian banks. Dr. Lawani’s research interest covers corporate governance and organizational performance at the micro level, and developmental finance and economics at the macro level. He is a lifelong learner and is always excited about the discovery of new knowledge and ideas.