Dr. Akinrinola Bankole is the Director of International Research at the Allan Guttmacher Institute, New York, USA. Since starting in 1997, he has taken an active part in the Institute's research projects. He was co-investigator in research efforts to examine men's sexual and reproductive behaviours and service needs worldwide.

He is one of the principal staff involved in a research effort examining HIV prevention among young people in Sub-Saharan Africa. He is also currently involved in researching abortion worldwide, focusing particularly on Nigeria, Uganda and Guatemala, and in a study of reasons for unmet need for contraception in developing countries. Prior to coming to the Institute, he was a member of the research staff at Princeton University's Office of Population Research. His primary research interests include fertility preferences and behaviour, contraception, abortion, sexually transmitted diseases and HIV, and gender roles and differentials. Dr. Bankole has extensive experience in undertaking comparative analyses of sexual and reproductive health in developing countries using large-scale datasets. His work includes multi-country studies of unmet need for contraception, fertility preferences and behaviour and contraceptive use. He is a member of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Population Association of America and the Union of African Population Studies. He also serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. He has written and co-authored many articles and publications. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.