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About Hakeem
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the final year of my doctoral training in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. I work under the supervision of Norma Rantisi. My research focuses on the political economy of urban marketplace demolition and modernization in Lagos, Nigeria. I expect to defend my thesis in the summer of 2026.
I am a trained urban planner and researcher with almost two decades of professional experience in West Africa, consulting in survey data collection and research management. Before I started my doctoral training, I was the Research Manager for the Lagos Trader Project, an academic research initiative run by researchers at Stanford University and Dartmouth College in the United States.
Drawing on my extensive experience in this field, I founded a start-up, DevHub Research Limited, which is a Nigeria-based survey and research management consultancy to implement rigorous, evidence-based policy and academic research projects in West Africa. DevHub is registered to operate in Nigeria by the Corporate Affairs Commission and the Nigeria Data Protection Commission. DevHub has been active in Lagos since 2018, working as an implementation partner on diverse academic projects with principal researchers based in Nigeria, the USA, and the EU.
Featured Projects as an Independent Consultant
Lagos Trader Project (July 2023 – December 2025)
Lagos Trader Project (July 2023 – December 2025)
Awarding institution: Inter-university research assistance agreement: Dartmouth College via Concordia University
PI & Designation: Meredith Startz, Assistant Professor of Economics, Dartmouth
Scope: Hybrid work arrangement between Montreal and Lagos; co-principal investigator, and project coordination consulting for data collection and research management on three (3) sub-projects:
The role of public lenders in small enterprise growth in Nigeria
Lagos Trader Survey / Nigerian Supply Chains Survey
Impact of urban market demolitions on Nigerian traders.
Lagos Trader Project (October - December 2020)
Lagos Trader Project (October - December 2020)
Awarding institution: Dartmouth College
PI & Designation: Meredith Startz, Assistant Professor of Economics
Scope: Research management consulting for data collection
Coronavirus Impact on Nigerian Wholesale and Retail Trade (June - October 2020)
Coronavirus Impact on Nigerian Wholesale and Retail Trade (June - October 2020)
Awarding institution: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), International Growth Centre (IGC)
PI & Designation: Shelby Grossman, Researcher, IGC & Meredith Startz, Research Affiliate, IGC
Scope: Subcontractor and co-investigator
Middlemen: The Structure of Chains of Intermediation (March - June 2020)
Middlemen: The Structure of Chains of Intermediation (March - June 2020)
Awarding institution: Stanford University
PI & Designation: Meredith Startz – Department of Economics
Scope: Continuation of data collection and field management services for some new remote surveying strategies in Nigeria
Middlemen: The Structure of Chains of Intermediation (March - December 2019)
Middlemen: The Structure of Chains of Intermediation (March - December 2019)
Awarding institution: Stanford University
PI & Designation: Meredith Startz - Postdoc, Stanford Center on Global Poverty & Development
Scope: Data collection and field management services to implement project planning and piloting.
Public and Private Transit: Evidence from Lagos (October 2019)
Public and Private Transit: Evidence from Lagos (October 2019)
Awarding institution: University of California, Berkeley
PI & Designation: Nick Tsivanidis, Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business & Department of Economics
Scope: Arranged qualitative interviews with informal private minibus (Danfo) drivers in Lagos.
Pilot Okrika Trader Survey (OTS) in 3 Nigerian Cities: Lagos, Ibadan, & Abeokuta (July - October 2019)
Pilot Okrika Trader Survey (OTS) in 3 Nigerian Cities: Lagos, Ibadan, & Abeokuta (July - October 2019)
Awarding institution: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., Cambridge, MA
PI & Designation: Meredith Startz – Department of Economics, Stanford University
Scope: Data collection
https://www.nber.org/people/meredith_startz?page=1&perPage=50
Lagos Trader Survey and Okrika Trader Survey under the Lagos Trader Project (August 2016 – December 2018)
Lagos Trader Survey and Okrika Trader Survey under the Lagos Trader Project (August 2016 – December 2018)
Awarding institution: Yale University
PI & Designation: Meredith Startz – Economic Growth Center, Department of Economics
Scope: Oversight of the data collection team and implementation of survey procedures.
Lagos Trader Survey (LTS) under the Lagos Trader Project (June - December 2018)
Lagos Trader Survey (LTS) under the Lagos Trader Project (June - December 2018)
Awarding institution: Stanford University
PI & Designation: Pascaline Dupas and Meredith Startz – Department of Economics
Scope: Planning and implementing survey data collection, managing field processes to ensure the continuity of knowledge and high-quality standards set for the LTS during earlier survey rounds.
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