Professor Osita Ogbu is a Professor of Economics and former Director of the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN). He also is the Managing Director/CEO of African Development Solutions International (ADSI), a knowledge-based consulting firm based in Abuja. Professor Ogbu was the Economic Adviser to the President of the Federal of Nigeria and CEO of the National Planning Commission (Minister of National Planning) from 2005 to 2006 and was the Deputy Head of the Economic Team under President Obasanjo. He is the immediate past Chairman of the Governing Council of the National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NISER). Professor Ogbu was the Founder and Executive Director/CEO of the African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS), headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya from 2001 to 2005, and was a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. He is the author of several books on African development, and of a novel, The Moon Also Sets. He obtained M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from Howard University, USA in 1984 and 1988, and a B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 1979. Professor Ogbu holds the Nigerian National Honor of the Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON).