Oluwatimilehin Sotubo

Oluwatimilehin Sotubo

Ph.D. Candidate, RAND School of Public Policy; Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND

Oluwatimilehin (Tim) Sotubo is a Ph.D. candidate in the Research, Analysis, and Design stream at the RAND School of Public Policy and an assistant policy analyst at RAND. His research interests include housing and land use policy, immigration policy, the intersection of economic policy and national security policy, U.S.-Africa relations, and China-Africa relations.

Prior to joining RAND, he worked as a revenue assurance analyst at Ikeja Electric where he identified and plugged revenue leakages. Before his time at Ikeja Electric, he worked with KPMG Nigeria as a financial risk management analyst. During his time in KPMG, he developed an automated model to mitigate financial risks in the Treasury function of a commercial bank which began identifying fraudulent transactions right from the user acceptance testing. 

Sotubo has an M.Phil. in public policy from the RAND School of Public Policy, an M.Sc in economics and finance from University of Bath and a B.Sc. in economics from Crawford University.

Education

M.Phil. in public policy, The RAND School of Public Policy; M.Sc. in economics and finance, University of Bath; B.Sc. in economics, Crawford University, Nigeria

Languages

English; Yoruba; French

Selected Work

  • Oluwatimilehin Sotubo, Graham T. DiGuiseppi, Anthony Rodriguez, Rachana Seelam, Daniel Siconolfi, Avah Mousavi, Eric R. Pedersen, Elizabeth J. D’Amico, "Age of Initiation and Duration of Alcohol and Cannabis Use as Predictors of Homelessness in Emerging Adulthood," Psychology of Addictive Behaviors (forthcoming)
  • Ogunbajo, Adedotun, Oluwatimilehin Sotubo, Kehinde Okanlawon, Elizabeth Shoyemi, Olakunle Oginni, and Kenneth H. Mayer, "Intersectional Stigma and Adherence to Antiretroviral (ART) Among Sexual Minority Men (SMM) Living with HIV in Nigeria: A Qualitative Inquiry," Plos ONE, 20(12), 2025
  • Sotubo, Oluwatimilehin, Cortez A. Cooper III, Chinese Engagement with Africa: A RAND Research Primer, RAND Corporation (RR-A2989-1), 2025
  • Michael J. McNerney, Oluwatimilehin Sotubo, and Daniel Egel, "Examining the Value of a “Soft Power” Net Assessment Comparing Chinese and U.S. Power Projection in Africa," PRISM, 10(4), 2024

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