Before joining LEAD, Professor Adeniyi Osuntogun was Vice-Chancellor, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He is currently a member of the Governing Council of Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo, Nigeria.

Professor Osuntogun holds a BSc Degree in Economics from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria and a PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of Leeds in the UK.

Professor Osuntogun is a specialist in Environmental Economics and Environmental Policy Analysis. He has served as a Researcher for the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), London, on Institutional Determinants and Constraints on Agricultural Development. He has also consulted for the World Bank on Applied Poverty-Environment Indicators, as well as for the DFID on Promoting Environmental Sustainability in Development in West Africa.

Professor Osuntogun has also consulted for FAO, ILO, IUCN, ECA, AND UNDP. He served as a Consultant Environmental Economist and Evaluator of the African Economic Research Consultium (AERC) Collaborative Master of Arts Programme.

Professor Osuntogun has published in the British Journal of Agricultural Economics, Oxford Agrarian Studies, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Agricultural Administration, Journal of Developing Areas, African Journal of Agricultural Sciences, and the West African Journal of Agricultural Economics, among other outlets.

Professor Osuntogun retired as Programme Director of LEAD Anglophone West Africa at the end of 2009. He is an Honorary LEAD Fellow.