Biographical Note

Ladipo Adamolekun, a Nigerian national, is an Independent Scholar. 

From January 1987 to July 2004, he was a Management Specialist at the World Bank and worked on public sector governance and management issues.  Prior to joining the World Bank, he was a teacher in one of Nigeria’s universities for twenty years, the last ten as a Professor of Public Administration.  He served there as Head, Department of Public Administration and Dean, Faculty of Administration. 

His other work experience includes a one-year stint as a Public Administration Officer in the United Nation’s Secretariat (1975-76).  Professor Adamolekun holds a B.A. (French), and M.Phil. (Public Administration) degrees from universities in Nigeria, and a D. Phil. (Politics) from the University of Oxford, England.

He is the author or co-author of  twenty-five books and monographs and numerous articles and contributions to books on politics and public administration in Africa.   In December 2005, he was conferred with the Nigerian National Order of Merit award (NNOM), the “highest national prize for academic and intellectual attainment”.