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Dr. Olufunke Mercy Popoola is a lecturer in the faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Berlin School of Business and Innovation. She holds a doctorate degree in Business Administration a master’s degree in Economics from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Education from the same university. She has taught in the areas of international business administration, strategic management, Digital Marketing, International Project Management and Leadership, Branding, Communication and Marketing. She is a member of Teachers Registration Council in Nigeria (TRCN) with over 5 years teaching experience.
She obtained her Financial Modelling and Valuation Analyst (FMVA) certification from the Corporate Finance Institute (CFI) through ALX Group Africa and has worked with an Agro-allied firm as an Account Officer for two years where she ensured adequate preparation of financial reports, ensured proper auditing, reconciled the account payable and receivable.
Areas of expertise
Research interests
Publications
Ibeh L., Mutai N. C., Popoola O. M., Cuong N. M., & Ejiofor S., 2025. Exploring perspectives on ChatGPT integration in education: A student-centered study of benefits, concerns, and global implications for responsible AI integration. Research in Learning Technology, 33.
Mutai, N.C., Farag, K., Ibeh, L., Chelabi, K., Cuong, N.M. and Popoola, O.M., 2025. AI Driven Fiscal Risk Assessment in the Eurozone: A Machine Learning Approach to Public Debt Vulnerability. FinTech, 4(3), p.27.
Ibeh, L., Mutai, N., Pattanaik, P., Cuong, N.M., Sambiri, B.B., Chelabi, K., Popoola, O.M., Makarov, A. and Sateeshchandr, N.G., 2025. Exploring university students’ perspectives’ on ChatGPT integration in education. JOTSE, 15(2), pp.289-301.
Mutai, N.C., Cuong, N.M., Dervishaj, V., Kiarie, J.W., Misango, P., Ibeh, L., Popoola, O.M. and Lallmahamood, M., 2024. Examining the sustainability of African debt owed to China in the context of debt-trap diplomacy. Scientific African, 24, p.e02164.
Popoola, O.M., Mutai, N.C., Dervishaj, V., Nguyen, C.M., Kumari, S. and Bhatia, G., 2024. Exploring the impact of oil revenue on Nigeria’s economic growth: A non‐linear autoregressive distributed lag model. OPEC Energy Review, 48(4), pp.293-307.
Cuong, N.M., Mutai, N., Samoylenko, S., Rostomyan, A., Anjum, S., Ibeh, L., Silwizya, K., Sateeshchandra, N.G., Bertero, L., Popoola, O.M. and Nghiem, T., 2023. Mindfulness Philosophy and the Redefined Transformation Leadership Model: The Case Study of Plum Village. Journal of Law and Sustainable Development, 11(12), pp.e2138-e2138.
