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Dr Olufemi Sallyanne Decker is not your stereotypical British academic. For starters she is a woman, secondly, she has no roots in Middle England, and thirdly she is African (Sierra Leonean to be specific). A woman dedicated to simplifying concepts for young people, and a passion for sharing and receiving knowledge, Yaaya caught up with Dr Olufemi Sallyanne Decker - Principal Lecturer in Banking and Finance, and Programme Leader for the MSc in International Banking and Finance at Greenwich University.
In Part 1 of our 2-part interview, we discuss her journey into academia and her love for learning.
And so the conversation begins …
Once I started working as an academic, it's dawned on me that over the years my biggest passion in life has been a love for learning, and that’s what has kept me in academia because I love to learn and having learnt things, I want to simplify them and communicate them to others. I think it came from being a show off as a child, and wanting to show off everything I knew. I think this is what I do best as a Lecturer which is: communicating what I have learnt in an innovative and interesting way so other people can enjoy the joy of knowing these things.
After university I worked for a Bank, which changed my direction a bit. When I decided to study again, I actually did an MBA because I wanted to move into a managerial position in banking. After completing that, I then moved into the research field by completing a PhD in Banking. I think that I decided then that my passion was Banking and from that I moved into lecturing. So I think it has all been related to finance and commerce in some way, but I've moved from industry to academia.
Look out for Part 2 of our 2-part conversation on Thursday 16th May 2013, where Dr Olufemi Sallyanne Decker discusses gender and race in Academia, what being an academic is like, and where she sees herself going next in her career.
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