Faculty Profiles: Ayokunle, Phillip, Ph.D.

Phillip Ayokunle, Ph.D.
Position Title: Associate Professor of Economics
Office Location: Wendell P. Holmes, Jr./College of Business and Entrepreneurship, Room 349
Office Phone: 386 - 481- 2868
Email: ayokunlep@cookman.edu

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•  Ph.D., Economics, Jackson State University, December 2021
•  MBA., Delta State University, July, 2014.

• Microeconomics and Personal Finance.

• Co-Advisor, Investment club (undergraduate), College of Business and Entrepreneurship, Bethune Cookman University.

•  A Certificate Programs Development Committee member, College of Business and Entrepreneurship, Bethune Cookman University.

Phillip Ayokunle, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Economics at Bethune Cookman University. Ayokunle taught economics as a volunteer instructor at the University of the People in 2024 and also taught Economics and Business Statistics at Jackson State University from 2017 to 2022. 

• Economic Development
• Labor and Finance Economics
• Economic Impact Analysis

• External Debt, Domestic Debt and Economic Growth: The Case of Nigeria. (2020). D Didia, P Ayokunle  Advances in Economics and Business 8 (2), 85-94

• Accounting for Diaspora Remittances in the Economic Development of Sub-Sahara Africa. (2018).

  D Didia, L Didia, P Ayokunle Journal of Applied Economics & Business Research 8 (2)

• Teaching Method in Business (2017), College of Business, Jackson State University.

 Ongoing research include:

•  Access-to-Finance and Unemployment: Analysis of Effects of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises’ (MSMEs) Increased Access to Finance on Unemployment.

• Examining the Effects of Inequitable-Funding on Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Undergraduate Enrollment Rate in Public Higher Institutions: An Empirical Analysis of the NCES/IPEDS Data.