Kehinde Ajayi is an Economist at the Africa Gender Innovation Lab, in the World Bank’s Office of the Chief Economist for Africa. Her work focuses on gender, youth employment, social protection, and childcare. Before joining the World Bank in 2018, she was an assistant professor of Economics at Boston University. Kehinde has a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.