Mojúbàolú Olúfunké Okome is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College, CUNY, and a Leonard and Claire Tow Professor (2015/2016). She is a Council on Foreign Relations Distinguished Higher Education Ambassador (2025–2026) and former Higher Education Ambassador (2024–2025). She is also a Lagos Studies Association Distinguished Scholar.
She is a two-time Carnegie Diaspora Fellow, past Senior Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious Diversity (Göttingen), and was named one of Nigerian Annual 100 Leading Women 2023. An international political economist specializing in Africa, with Nigeria as her country focus, she is the sole author/editor of seven books, including A Sapped Democracy: The Political Economy of the Structural Adjustment Program and the Political Transition in Nigeria (1983–1993). She founded and edits Ìrìnkèrindò: A Journal of African Migration, co-founded JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies and co-edited it until 2020; she also co-founded #BringBackOurGirlsNYC.
