Oluwatimilehin Sotubo is a PhD student at the Pardee RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica, California. He has a B.Sc in Economics from Crawford University, Nigeria, and an M.Sc in Economics and Finance from the University of Bath, UK. His research interests include economic policy, defense and security policy, economic development and poverty reduction, U.S.-Africa relations, and China-Africa relations. Prior to pursuing a PhD, he worked as a consultant with KPMG Nigeria and as a revenue assurance analyst at Ikeja Electric in Nigeria.