Vancouver, British Columbia
Oludolapo
Makinde
Ph.D. in Law
I am a legal scholar working in corporate and AI governance. My research and teaching are informed by more than a decade of professional experience across corporate legal practice, international development, public policy, and institutional investor advocacy.
- Previously World Bank Africa Fellow, ESG & social risk
- Trained UBC (Ph.D., LL.M.) · Unilag (LL.B.) · Nigerian Bar
- Focus Anti-corruption · ESG · AI governance
Research interests
Corporate
governance
My research sits in corporate governance. It develops along two complementary strands: the governance of emerging technologies and board diversity.
I particularly focus on how corporations use and govern artificial intelligence, and on how Canadian law can strengthen accountability for the risks and harms that follow. On board diversity, I examine whether quotas and equity commitments deliver, particularly for Black women on Canadian corporate boards.
Both are grounded in a decade of practice advising boards in Lagos, consulting on ESG and social risk at the World Bank Group, and engaging North American public companies on responsible AI on behalf of institutional investors.
Governing emerging technologies
Published in the Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law, The Extractive Industries and Society, and the Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics & Society, among other venues.
Board diversity
A chapter on gender diversity in Carol Liao's Corporate Sustainability and the Law from the Next Generation of Lawyers (McGill-Queen's, 2022), and a forthcoming article in the Australian Feminist Law Journal.
Selected writing
Recent work
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AI in Corporate Anti-Corruption Risk Management: Emerging Uses and Challenges
U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre · 2026 -
Leveraging AI and ESG to Combat Corporate Corruption: An Integrated Framework
Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics & Society · 2025 -
In the Age of ChatGPT, Workers Want a Say on AI in the Workplace
Forbes · June 2025 -
Black Women on Corporate Boards: A Feminist and Critical Race Analysis of Quotas and EDI Measures in the U.S. and Canada
Australian Feminist Law Journal · forthcoming 2026