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Profile of Prof. Dr. Adesoji Adesugba DBA, MBA, MSc, LLB, BL. BSc, FCIArb (UK)

Prof. Dr. Adesoji Adesugba is a Visiting Professor of Business Administration at the American International University Banjul Gambia. An accomplished specialist in Investment Promotion and Economic Development, he is known for his proficiency in organizational development and institutional reforms. He has combined the best in private sector entrepreneurial acumen with an expert ability to navigate public sector practice. Adesugba lectures part-time as a Professor of Business Administration at the Roegate College in Dublin, Ireland and also lectured at the Baden International Business School, Baden, Switzerland. Adesugba is the Chairman of the National Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Mines, and Agriculture (NACCIMA) Education Committee.

Adesugba is the founder and the Provost at the Business Entrepreneurship Skills and Technology (BEST) Centre, and a Vice President at the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI). Prof. Adesugba is also the founder and President of the first Gemological Institute in West Africa, the Gemological Institute of Nigeria (GIN). He is also the founder and the National Coordinator of the Gemstones Miners and Marketers Association of Nigeria (GMMAN). Prof. Adesugba is a Vice President at the Nigerian Chamber of Mines.

A certified international arbitrator and mediator, Dr. Adesugba worked as the Chairman of the Industrial Arbitration Panel (IAP), a Federal Government of Nigeria agency set up for the resolution of industrial disputes. Before working at the IAP, Dr. Adesugba served as a Director at the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC), where he was responsible for the development of strategies to promote and target investments into the Nigerian economy. At the NIPC, he initiated the South East Asia Investment Promotion Program and was commended for his efforts in 2007 for his promotion efforts at the Commission.

Between 2005 to 2007, Adesugba was seconded from the NIPC to the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) as the Head of Marketing, Communications, and External Relations, to help reinvigorate the privatization exercise of the Federal Government of Nigeria. At the BPE, he served as a member of the National Council on Privatization, subcommittee on marketing, media, and publicity. Prof. Adesugba started his career in the public service as a Superintendent Collector Grade II, at the Nigerian Customs Service in August 1982 and rose to the rank of Chief Superintendent before leaving the service for the NIPC in 1999. He serves on the boards of various non-profit organizations dedicated to youth empowerment, economic development, gender, and policy issues.

Prof. Dr. Adesoji Adesugba obtained his doctorate in Business Administration with the highest distinction from the California Southern University in the USA. He has an M.Sc. degree in Investment Promotion and Economic Development from the Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland, UK, and his MBA from the Ogun State University in Nigeria, his first degree was a B.Sc. degree in Business Administration from the University of Lagos in 1981. Adesugba also studied law and obtained his LL.B. from the University of Lagos in 1987. He was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1989. Prof. Dr. Adesugba has a certificate in Chinese Economic Development from the Normal University, Beijing China; a Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK); and a certificate from the Columbia Law School in New York. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK), a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators, a Fellow of the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria and a Fellow of the Chartered Taxation Institute of Nigeria.