Summary CV

Professor Ladipo ADAMOLEKUN, D.Phil. (Oxon), NNOM:

Summary Curiculum Vitae 

Areas of professional competence and interest

Governance and management issues including, public and corporate governance, civil service and administrative reform, decentralization, institutional development, international development management, and comparative management; federalism; and politics of development.    (Fluent in Yoruba, English and French). 

Education

University of Ibadan, Nigeria (B. A. French); Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife, Nigeria (M.Phil. Public Administration); and University of Oxford, England (D.Phil. Politics).

Former Employment has included:

Professor of Management (on contract) at the Federal University of Technology, Akure (2005-2008); Specialist in Public Sector Management, The World Bank (1987-2004); Professor of Public Administration, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife (1978-88); Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, (1983); and Public Administration Officer, Division of Public Administration, United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA, (1975-1976). 

Former Posts held have included:

Lead Public Sector Management Specialist, The World Bank, 2000-2004; Dean, Faculty of Administration, and Head, Department of Public Administration – at Obafemi Awolowo University, 1979-81 and 1976-79 respectively.

Honours and Distinctions include

College Scholar at the University of Ibadan (1965-1968); Rockefeller Scholar at the University of Oxford (1969-72); Fulbright Scholar, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, U.S.A., November 1982 - June, 1983; Rockefeller Scholar in Residence, Bellagio Study Centre, Italy, September - October, 1983; Vice-President, International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA), 1980-86 and 1998-2004; Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM), 2005 - the “highest national prize for academic and intellectual attainment”.

Public Service (National and International)

National: Served between 1975 and 1986 on many Nigerian federal and state governments’ committees, councils and boards dealing with issues in the field of public affairs. 

International:  Served between 1973 and 1986 and since 2004 as consultant to several pan-African and international bodies, notably the United Nations, the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and Britain’s Department for International Development.

Publications

Books and monographs: over 25, including Sekou Toure’s Guinea, 1976; Politics and Administration in Nigeria, 1986; Public Administration in Africa (ed.), 1999; and Politics, Bureaucracy and Development (2006).   Journal articles and contributions to books: over 100 and the Journals include the International Review of Administrative Sciences (Brussels, Belgium); Quarterly Journal of Administration (Ife, Nigeria); and Publius. The Journal of Federalism (USA).  Other Writings: Over 35 commissioned/official papers, reports, and invited lectures; over 30 conference, seminar and workshop papers; and over 150 published short essays in magazines and newspapers.

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