Dr Comfort Ricketts is a Doctor of Applied Economics with 15+ years of experience in the fields of Labor Economics, Health Economics, Higher Education and Development Economics. Comfort has a passion for the economic success of individuals, businesses, communities and nations. She recalls as a child her father, a Consultant Surgeon wanting her to become a medical doctor to which she replied “…I would treat countries (nations) daddy.” Dr Ricketts has since then worked with the African Development Bank (AfDB), and multiple higher education institutions. She holds fast to the belief that at the individual level we are all called in some form or capacity to a life of humble selfless service.

Dr Ricketts has a PhD in Applied Economics. She, by God’s grace is the first black woman to graduate with a PhD in Applied Economics from the College of Business at Mississippi State University and the youngest professor to be granted Promotion and Tenure to Associate Professor in College of Business at New Mexico State University in the United States of America. Dr Ricketts taught students from diverse parts of the world; for about 12 years she served at Mississippi State University and New Mexico State University, after which she worked at Southern New Hampshire University as Director of Workforce Insight and with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board as Program Director (Workforce).