Dr. Olumide Abimbola is a political economist and Director of Africa Policy Research Institute APRI, a Berlin-based African think tank. His areas of focus include trade policy, regional integration, natural resources management, and industrial development. Before APRI, he worked at the CONNEX Support Unit, a GIZ-hosted, G7 initiative funded by the German government and the European Commission. Prior to that, he worked on trade and regional integration at the African Development Bank (AfDB) working on continental projects such as the Africa Visa Openness Index and the Africa Regional Integration Index, a collaboration between the AfDB, African Union and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.