Justin Kakeu

Dr. Justin Johnson Kakeu is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) and a Gilbert F. White Fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF), a leading independent nonprofit research institution dedicated to advancing environmental, energy, and natural resource policy through rigorous economic research and policy engagement. Before joining UPEI, he taught at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Morehouse College in the United States. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Université de Montréal (Canada), along with a Master’s in Statistics and Economics and a Master’s in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. Prior to his academic career, he gained experience in financial institutions, serving as a Statistician-Economist at the Ministry of Finance in Cameroon and completing an internship at the Central Bank of West African States.