Omari Holmes Swinton (born November 30, 1980) is an American economist who is chair of the Economics department at Howard University[1] and a former president of the National Economic Association.

[5] Swinton has been on the faculty of Howard University since 2007, and has chaired that Economics Department since 2017.

In February 2019, he was interviewed by J.P. Morgan about building wealth.

[6] He was president of the National Economic Association (NEA) in 2019.

His stated goal for the organization was to encourage minorities to enter the field of economics.