About
Stephen Omukoko Okoth
Economist, operator, and product builder
LeadAfrik turns African public economics into something readers can actually use. We publish data-driven analysis on the policies and markets that shape African economies, ship transparent decision tools and interactive economic models with every assumption visible, and run a hands-on classroom — a live SQL practice environment, financial-statement walkthroughs, and skills tests with verifiable certificates. Free where it matters. Built in public.
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Oberlin College, Class of 2025
Current work
Research Analyst, Equilar
Markets exposure
Morgan Stanley fixed income
Languages
English and Swahili
Chicago, Illinois, and Kenya
Focus area
Public economics
Kenya-focused policy explanation, fiscal analysis, and evidence-based writing that stays accessible.
Focus area
Decision tools
Interactive models that help households and operators reason through tradeoffs in real time.
Focus area
Market infrastructure
Marketplace and workflow products designed to improve trust, discovery, and execution.
Background
Economics training, market exposure, product work.
2025 — present
Research Analyst, Equilar
Executive compensation, governance, and corporate datasets. Chicago.
Summer 2024
Morgan Stanley Fixed Income
Sales, trading & structuring analyst. Reverse-engineered mortgage analytics.
2025
Oberlin College, Class of 2025
Mathematical Economics, honors. Student commencement speaker. Comfort Starr Prize.
2023 — present
LeadAfrik & product studio
Public economics platform plus market products in property ops, addressing, civic reporting, agriculture, and care.
On this platform
Four working surfaces, one platform.
Decide, learn, theorise, or read — without leaving the site. Everything is free, region-aware where it matters, and built in public.
Learn · featured
A real classroom, not a reading list.
A deep, rigorous course catalogue across data analysis, finance, economics, AI, and thinking & communication. Live in-browser practice for SQL, Python, R, Stata, plus the Viz Studio grammar-of-graphics playground. Skills tests with verifiable certificates. Mwalimu — your AI tutor — on every module for premium learners. Eight interactive economic models. Two reference libraries.
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Finance Explained
Every instrument, plainly.
Mutual funds, hedge funds, ETFs, REITs, T-bills, sukuk, derivatives, SACCOs.
Institutions Atlas
Who runs the money.
CBK, KRA, CMA, NSE, RBA, SASRA, IMF, World Bank, AfDB, AfCFTA, FATF.
Decide
Finance Tools
Free finance and economics calculators across personal money, wealth, investing, business, tax, and macro — region-aware for Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, the UK, and the US.
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Theory
Economic Models
Eight canonical economic models — Supply & Demand, IS-LM, Phillips Curve, Solow Growth, Cobb-Douglas, Prisoner's Dilemma, Laffer Curve, and a simplified DSGE — each with theory, an interactive playground, and classroom notes.
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Read
Analysis & Data
Long-form analysis on African public economics — banking spreads, mobile money, AGPO procurement, deindustrialisation — alongside curated documents, datasets, and a monthly Kenyan macro snapshot.
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From Africa, for the world
Built in Nairobi. Sold globally.
The classroom is anchored in African data and African examples — pension portfolios, budget cycles, Eurobonds, mobile-money flows — because that’s where the most useful new economics of the next decade is being written. But the skills you build here travel.
Certificates are verifiable on the public web. Employers, universities, and other institutions across Africa, Europe, North America, and Asia license seats. To request access, or to discuss a custom workshop or co-branded cohort, get in touch.
Other products
The rest of the studio.
Beyond LeadAfrik’s research and tools, a small line of products targets the friction points that show up in African markets — addressing, civic reporting, property operations, agricultural trade, and care coordination.
Address infrastructure
LivePINI
A Kenya address-resolution and location-intelligence platform designed to turn raw coordinates into reusable, verifiable location records for last-mile delivery and operations.
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Civic reporting
LiveTukomacho
An anonymous corruption-pattern reporting map for Kenya that keeps submissions private and exposes only thresholded public hotspots.
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Property operations
LiveRentflow
A property-operations workspace for rent collection, occupancy, service recovery, notices, and portfolio control.
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Marketplace
LiveAgrisoko254
A Kenyan agricultural marketplace connecting farmers, traders, agrovets, and buyers across all 47 counties.
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Consumer product
LiveJali
A privacy-first care coordination app for families and close friends, built around reminders, shared care groups, and exportable journals instead of feeds or contact scraping.
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Get in touch
Always open to a thoughtful conversation.
Research collaboration, course feedback, missing tools, public-policy questions — write any time.
Replies usually within 48 hours.
Related
Keep exploring.
If the brief made you curious, these are the most-visited corners of the platform.
Tools
Finance Tools Suite
33 free calculators across personal money, wealth, investing, business, tax, and macro. Region-aware.
Probability Lab
World Cup 2026 prediction model
The probability project — open methodology, 77% backtested accuracy on three prior tournaments.
Standards
Editorial standards
How LeadAfrik researches, sources, fact-checks, and corrects its public-economics analysis.
Contact
Get in touch
Speaking, analysis requests, dataset partnerships, or general questions.