Omari Swinton
Omari Holmes Swinton is the president of the National Economic Association and the chair of the Economics department at Howard University.Biography
Swinton is the son of economist David Swinton. He completed his B.S. in Economics at Florida A&M in 2001, and his M.A. and Ph.D. at Duke University in 2003 and 2007 respectively.
In February 2019, Swinton was interviewed by J.P. Morgan about building wealth. He has also been published in other sources such as The Washington Post.
In 2019, Swinton was sworn in as the president of the National Economic Association to serve a one year term. His stated goal for the organization is to encourage minorities to enter the field of economics.Personal life
Swinton is married and has four children.
