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Akinwumi "Akin" Adesina is the President of the African Development Bank. He previously served as Nigeria's Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.^[2] Until his appointment as Minister in 2010, he was Vice President of Policy and Partnerships for the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA).^[3] In 2015, he was elected as the President of the African Development Bank. He was the first Nigerian to hold the post.

Early life and career

Adesina was born to a Nigerian farmer in Ibadan, Oyo State.^[4] He attended a village school and graduated with a Bachelors in Agricultural Economics with First Class Honors from the University of Ife, Nigeria (1981), where he was the first student to be awarded this distinction by the university. He pursued his studies at Purdue University in Indiana, briefly returning to Nigeria in 1984 to get married.^[5] He obtained his PhD (Agricultural Economics) in 1988 from Purdue where he won the Outstanding PhD Thesis for his research work.^[6]

From 1990 to 1995, Adesina served as a senior economist at West African Rice Development Association (WARDA) in Bouaké, Ivory Coast.

He worked at the Rockefeller Foundation since winning a fellowship from the Foundation as a senior scientist in 1988. From 1999 to 2003 he was the representative of the Foundation for the southern African area. From 2003 until 2008 he was an associate director for food security.

Minister of Agriculture, 2010–2015

Adesina was the Nigerian Agriculture Minister from 2010 to 2015. During this time the Permanent Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development was Ibukun Odusote.^[7] Adesina was named as Forbes African Man of the Year for his reform of Nigerian agriculture. He introduced more transparency into the fertiliser supply chain. He also said that he would give away mobile phones to farmers but this proved too difficult. One of the reasons was the lack of a mobile network in country areas.^[8]

In 2010, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appointed him as one of 17 global leaders to spearhead the Millennium Development Goals.

President of the African Development Bank, 2015–present

On 28 May 2015, Adesina was elected the presumptive President of the African Development Bank. He began his tenure of the office on 1 September 2015.^[8] He is the eighth president in the organization's history, and the first Nigerian to hold the post.

He launched a strategy based on energy, agriculture, industrialization, regional integration and bettering Africans' lives. The Board of Executive Directors approved the reorganization of the structure around these five priorities.

In September 2016, Adesina was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to serve as member of the Lead Group of the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement.^[9]

In 2017, he was awarded 2017 World Food Prize.^[10] Upon receiving the prize on October 21, 2017. Adesina donated the $250,000 he received to the development of African youth in agriculture.

Personal life

While at Purdue University Adesina and his wife, along with another couple, started a Christian group called the African Student Fellowship.^[5]

Recognition

References

1. ^[https://www.afdb.org/en/about-us/organisational-structure/the-president/biography/ The President's biography], African Development Bank
2. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.thisisafricaonline.com/Analysis/Interview-Akinwumi-Adesina-Minister-of-Agriculture-Nigeria?ct=true|title=Interview: Akinwumi Adesina, Minister of Agriculture, Nigeria|date=30 July 2013|work=This is Africa|accessdate=19 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112054018/http://www.thisisafricaonline.com/Analysis/Interview-Akinwumi-Adesina-Minister-of-Agriculture-Nigeria?ct=true|archive-date=2015-01-12|dead-url=yes|df=}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Transformation-agenda-surgical-operation-on-4022803.S.126065556|title=Transformation agenda, a surgical operation on Nigeria - Agric Minister|website=LinkedIn|date=19 June 2012}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://africanspotlight.com/2015/05/28/akinwumi-adesina-from-farmers-son-to-africa-bank-chief/|website=African Spotlight|title=Akinwumi Adesina: from farmer’s son to Africa bank chief|date=28 May 2015|accessdate=June 1, 2015|archive-url=https://archive.is/20160922132032/http://africanspotlight.com/2015/05/28/akinwumi-adesina-from-farmers-son-to-africa-bank-chief/|archive-date=2016-09-22|dead-url=yes|df=}}
5. ^¹{{cite book |ASIN=B077DZ8JTP|last1=Delmar Broersma |title=God's Surprises Along the Journey |date=2017 |pages=89-93}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://hmndp.org/node/233 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130807093012/http://hmndp.org/node/233 |dead-url=yes |archive-date=2013-08-07 |title=Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina |date=March 2013 |work=High-Level Meeting on Drought National Policy |accessdate=19 September 2014 }}
7. ^NIRA gets 3 life Patrons, IT Realms, Retrieved 23 January 2016
8. ^{{cite web|accessdate=1 September 2015| url=https://www.ghanabusinessnews.com/2015/09/01/africa-can-no-longer-manage-poverty-we-must-eliminate-it-adesina/|date=1 September 2015|title=Africa can no longer manage poverty, we must eliminate it – Adesina|publisher=Ghana Business News|first=Emmanuel K.|last=Dogbevi}}
9. ^[https://www.un.org/press/en/2016/sga1678.doc.htm Secretary-General Appoints 29 Global Leaders to Spearhead Fight against Malnutrition] United Nations, press release of 21 September 2016.
10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.africanews.com/2017/06/27/afdb-president-akinwumi-adesina-wins-250000-world-food-prize/|title=AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina wins $250,000 World Food Prize|publisher=africanews|date=27 June 2017}}
11. ^Profile:Akinwuni Adesina, Ogala Wordpress
12. ^¹{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-25199787|title=Nigeria's Akinwumi Adesina named Forbes African of the Year|publisher=BBC|date=December 3, 2013|accessdate=23 January 2016}}