Biography

Dr. Jide Iwarere joined the Department of Finance, International Business, and Insurance in 1986, after serving as Marketing Officer, Construction Financing, Citibank Lecturer, Applied and Managerial Economics at Kwara State College of Technology, Ilorin, Nigeria. Prior to that, he was a Revenue Officer, Ministry of Finance, Kano State; Assistant Marketing Operations Planning Manager (1974-76) and subsequently Sales Statistics Manager (1976-77) at Lever Brothers Nigeria Ltd. His primary research areas of interest include: Race and Residential Mortgage Financing Decisions, Market Behavior in Emergent Land Markets, Site Selection and Location Analysis, Valuation of Power Plants in the Context of Privatization, and Contingency Evaluation and Social Impact Analysis of Electric Power System. His publications span this gamut, of which some are noted below. He has taught Real Estate Finance and Investments, Real Estate Principles, Real Estate Development, Financial Management, Bond Markets, and Finance Principles. Iwarere, holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration (Real Estate and Finance) from the University of Georgia, an M.S. in Business (Real Estate and Investment Analysis) from the University of Wisconsin Madison, and a BSc in Economics from the University of Ibadan.