Nurudeen Opeyemi Wahab is a Ph.D. student at Rice University with a concentration in Strategic Management. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Olabisi Onabanjo University in Nigeria, graduating as the second-best in his cohort. He went on to complete a master’s degree in management at Diponegoro University in Indonesia and another master’s degree in hospitality business management at the University of Delaware.
His research interests center on social evaluations in organizational contexts—such as reputation, legitimacy, and status—and how digital transformation and social media shape these intangible assets.