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Adeniyi Osuntogun

Adeniyi Osuntogun

Professor Adeniyi Osuntogun is the former LEAD Anglophone West Africa Programme Director. Before this he 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.  He is a specialist in Environmental Economics and Environmental Policy Analysis and 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 DFID on Promoting Environmental Sustainability in Development in West Africa. He 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 is 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 was made an Honorary LEAD Fellow in 2010.