I am passionate about human flourishing, brain health, and individual agency.I am privileged to be able to pursue my passions as the Research Professor and the Inaugural Director of the Brainomics Venture at the Center for BrainHealth, University of Texas at Dallas. My focus is the economics of brain health, paying particular attention to the economics of what we can practically do to improve brain health for the individual, for the organization, and for the world.Brain health fits seamlessly with the emerging concept of Flourishing and I recently published (with co-author Dr. Elizabeth Neill) Flourishing in Canada: How to Get the Good Life, which makes the case for moving from a GDP Lens to a Flourishing Lens for forming public policy. My interest in the Flourishing concept arose from the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, which demonstrated how the economic and financial systems are not fit-for-purpose. Prior to joining The Center for BrainHealth, I had the extraordinary opportunity to be a nation builder and public intellectual in Nigeria, and played a number of key roles to advance Nigeria’s economy and society, including:- Advisory Partner and Chief Economist at PwC Nigeria; as Chief Economist, I was one of Nigeria's leading voices in unlocking the enormous potential of Nigeria's young people- Co-creator of the Self-Organising Naija concept (www.selforganisingnaija.org) - Founding Governor of the Financial Centre for Sustainability (FC4S) Lagos- Advisory Board Member of the Aig Imoukhuede Foundation- Trustee of HH Muhammadu Sanusi II SDG Challenge- Faculty Member of Nigeria's School of Politics, Politics, and Governance (thesppg.org)Overall, I have 36+ years of private sector experience as an entrepreneur, private equity investor, line manager, economist & strategy consultant and now as an academic. I started my career at McKinsey & Company, serving in the Toronto & Paris. Before joining PwC, I spent 10 years living in China and was President of United Family Hospitals (China’s pre-eminent international hospital chain) from 2003-2005, including during the SARS crisis.I am exceedingly grateful for the educational opportunities given to me. I hold a PhD in Economics from Harvard University, MA in Philosophy & Politics from Balliol College, Oxford University (where I studied as a Rhodes Scholar and score 2 goals in the 100th anniversary Blues ice hockey match vs Cambridge in 1985, my greatest athletic accomplishment), and a BSc (Hon) in Computer Science & Mathematics from Western University, Canada.I am Canadian