Dr. Olu Omodunbi, Chief Economist, Huntington Private Bank

Olu is senior vice president and chief economist at Huntington Private Bank®. In this role, he leads Huntington Private Bank’s Economics Department.

Prior to joining Huntington, Olu spent five years at The PNC Financial Services Group, Pittsburgh, where he served as vice president and senior economist. Prior to joining PNC, Olu spent three years at Goldman Sachs, New York, where he served as an associate in risk management.

Olu currently serves on the Economic Advisory Committee of the American Bankers Association (ABA). He is a member of Slippery Rock University’s Economics and Finance advisory board council. He previously served as a board member and vice president of programming at The Economic Club of Pittsburgh – the local chapter of National Association of Business Economics (NABE). He is the past research director at the non-profit FREE (Finance Requires Effective Education), a financial literacy initiative.

Olu earned his Ph.D. in economics from State University of New York (Binghamton) with concentrations in labor economics and econometrics. He also has a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is frequently cited in national media including the Wall Street Journal, CNN, NBC, Reuters, and MarketWatch.