THE AUTHOR

Stephen H. Gobewole grew up in Liberia and earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in management from Rhode Island College and a financial planning certificate from Bryant University. He also earned a Ph.D. in public policy with a concentration in public management and leadership from Walden University.

He worked in banking for many years and is also the author of Constitutional Neopatrimonialism in Liberia: A Persistent Dysfunctional Institution (2022), Liberia’s Political Economy: An Examination of Public Institutional Quality (2016), and Continental Impoverishment: The Effect of Extractive Institutions (2018).