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Nigeria - On May, 28, 2015, Akinwumi Adesina was elected to become the next President of the African Development Bank.
He will begin his tenure of the office on September, 1, 2015. He will become the the eight president in the organization's 50 year history, and the first Nigerian to hold the post. Here are 5 things about the new AfDB president you probably don't know.
He will begin his tenure of the office on September, 1, 2015. He will become the the eight president in the organization's 50 year history, and the first Nigerian to hold the post. Here are 5 things about the new AfDB president you probably don't know.
- He received a bachelor's degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Ife (Obafemi Awolowo University) and a PhD in Agricultural Economics from Purdue University(1988).
- He was the Principal economist and social science coordinator for the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan (1995-1998);
- He also was the Principal Economist and Coordinator of the West Africa Rice Economics Task Force at the West Africa Rice Development Association (1990-1995),
- Adesina was the Associate Director, Food Security at the Rockefeller Foundation, where he was in senior leadership positions from 1998- 2008;
- Also, he was Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Federal Republic of Nigeria (2010-2015)
