Adeolu Olanrewaju ODUSOTE is managing director of DEE-IY Limited, a computing, engineering, environmental and management consulting firm. He is responsible for the overall performance of the company. In the 1985 Nigeria Institute of Management's Annual Young Manager's Competition, he was awarded first place for his project on reducing and reusing scrap material. A.O. Odusote has a bachelor's degree in engineering and a master's degree in business administration, both from the University of Lagos. He also has a professional degree in engineering from the Nigerian Society of Engineers and pursued further training in advanced Christian leadership at Haggai Institute in Singapore.
Since his becoming a LEAD fellow in 1997, Adeolu has taken a greater interest in his business in matters relating to the environment. He has presented proposals that will enhance the private sector participation initiative for effective waste management in nigerian cities. In this regard, he won the first internship award with which he worked at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies(IGES), Hayama, Japan. The internship which ended in July 2000 produced useful modules for capacity building in his field of interest. These modles are now being included as e-courses on the IGES website.
In 2000/2001, Mr. Odusote was awarded the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship in which he did a one-year post-graduate work in the Principles of Environmental Management, Community Development and Conflict Resolution at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. During that fellowship year also, he worked at the Worldwide Environmental Affairs Division of Johnson and Johnson at the Group Headquarters in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he analysed the waste levels in the different plants of the Group around the world and at the World Resources Institute (WRI), Washington D.C., where he presented a paper titled 'The Way Forward: A synthesis and critical analysis of a one-year quest for sustainable development in the Niger Delta' as the summary of his fellowship year experience.
Mr. Odusote, in March 2002, coordinated a Presidential Retreat for the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo at the Africa Leadership Forum, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria on the role of the Christian citizen in a corrupt society. The outcome of the meeting is part of an action programme that will further deal with stemming the downward slide of the country in corrupt practices.
Mr. Odusote is currently working on an initiative called NASS Ray of Hope (NAROH), an effort targeted at the members of the National Assembly in Nigeria challenging them to bring the Principles of Jesus to bear in their legislative work.
Mr. Odusote presented a lead paper at the Annual General Meeting of the Institute of Environmental Engineering (a Division of the Nigerian Society of Engineers) on 'Effective Environmental Management'. During that conference, he had the opportuinty to present another paper 'Bridging the Integration Gap' where he shared the findings of his LEAD/IGES internship experience with the conference participants. As a result of his contributions at that conference, Mr. Odusote has been invited to carry out field surveys of some nagging environmental construction projects around the country.
