Prof. Segun O. Adedeji

Segun Olugbenga Adedeji (Ph.D) is a Professor and teaches Economics of Education and Education Planning and Policy in the Department of Educational Management, University of Ibadan. He was a MacArthur Fellow at the Centre for Comparative Education Research, University of Nottingham between May 2004 and April 2005. He was a visiting scholar and Director, Quality Assurance at Kampala International University, Kampala, Uganda from August 2007 to July 2008. He was a Fellow of Africa Higher Education Collaborative (AHEC), organized by the Institute of International Education (IIE) with funding from the Ford Foundation and a former Visiting Professor at the Department of Educational Management, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife between 2016 and 2017.

He has worked and interacted with senior-level technocrats and policy makers in higher education across the world on projects sponsored by the World Bank; UNESCO Institute of Statistics, UNESCO/IIEP, Paris; UNESCO/IICBA, Addis Ababa; Partnership for Higher Education in Africa (PHEA); Institute of International Education, USA; British Council UK, Templeton Foundation, USA.

Prof. S. O. Adedeji serves as the President of the Higher Education Research and Policy Network (HERPNET). A renowned scholar in higher education management, policy planning, and institutional governance across Africa.

"Advancing policy excellence and academic integrity remains our foremost responsibility to African higher education."