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Post by Shymmex on Dec 24, 2015 19:20:59 GMT
Debo Adegbile
 Debo Patrick Adegbile (born December 1966) is an American lawyer in private practice who was nominated to serve as the United States Assistant Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice Civil Division. The Senate rejected his nomination because he had filed a brief arguing that there was racial discrimination in jury selection for the trial of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a convicted and allegedly-confessed murderer of a law enforcement officer. Adegbile also worked for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and as a senior counsel on the staff of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Born Adebowale Patrick Akande Adegbile in New York City, Adegbile is the son of a Nigerian father and an Irish immigrant mother. He was raised by his single mother. He also was a child actor on the children's TV show Sesame Street during the 1970s, playing the character Debo and performing in episodes for nine years. Adegbile studied at Lehman College in 1986 and 1987 and earned a bachelor's degree in 1991 from Connecticut College. He then earned a law degree from New York University School of Law in 1994. During law school, Adegbile served as a legal assistant in the summer of 1991 for the New York law firm Solin & Breindel and then was a summer associate during the summer of 1992 for Morrison & Foerster. In the summer of 1993, Adegbile served as a summer associate for Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. He then joined the firm full-time as an associate in the firm's litigation department in 1994, holding that position until 2001. In 2001, Adegbile joined the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where he served as assistant counsel from 2001 until 2004, associate director of litigation from 2004 until 2007, director of litigation from 2007 until 2010, associate director-counsel/director of litigation from 2010 until 2014, acting president and director counsel from 2012 until 2013, and special counsel in 2013. Adegbile argued his first case before the United States Supreme Court in 2008, making a defense of the Voting Rights Act. In October 2011, blogger Ed Whelan reported that the White House was considering nominating Adegbile to one of three vacancies at the time on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Shortly thereafter, The Washington Post reported that President Obama had asked the American Bar Association to evaluate Adegbile's credentials, but the White House did not submit his name. In 2013, Adegbile joined the staff of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary as a senior counsel with a focus on legislative matters. On November 18, 2013, President Obama nominated Adegbile to serve as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, to succeed Thomas Perez, who had left the position to serve as United States Secretary of Labor. U.S Senators from both parties objected to Adegbile's signing of an appeal for Black Panther member Mumia Abu-Jamal who was convicted in 1982 for the first-degree murder of Daniel Faulkner, a Philadelphia police officer, on December 9, 1981. Mumia Abu-Jamal was sentenced to death, although the death sentence later was vacated because of problems with jury instructions. Adegbile and other lawyers filed an unsuccessful amicus curiae brief with the United States Supreme Court in 2009, arguing that the conviction was invalid because of racial discrimination in jury selection. In January 2014, Adegbile's nomination was returned to Obama, who renominated Adegbile within days. On February 6, 2014, the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary reported Adegbile's nomination to the full Senate in a 10–8, party-line vote. On February 27, 2014, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed for cloture on Adegbile's nomination, in an effort to cut off a filibuster by Republican senators. On March 5, 2014, the U.S. Senate failed to advance Adegbile's nomination in a 47–52 vote blocking his confirmation. Senate Republicans unanimously voted against him, particularly because of his appeal for Abu-Jamal, along with seven Democratic Senators. On September 15, 2014, Adegbile announced his withdrawal as a nominee to be assistant attorney general, and that he would be going into private practice, joining the law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 24, 2015 19:25:01 GMT
Dapo Akande Dapo Akande is Yamani Fellow at St Peter’s College, University of Oxford where he is also University Lecturer in Public International Law and Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) & the Oxford Martin Programme on Human Rights for Future Generations. He is the current Convenor of the Oxford Law Faculty's Public International Law Group. He has held visiting professorships at Yale Law School (where he was also Robinna Foundation International Fellow) and the University of Miami School of Law. He is (or has been) a member of the boards of several journals, academic and professional organizations, including: the Editorial Board of the American Journal of International Law; the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Journal of International Law; the Editorial Board of the African Journal of International and Comparative Law; the Advisory Council of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law; the Executive Council of the British Branch of the International Law Association; and the Advisory Board of the International Centre for Transitional Justice. He has held visiting professorships at Yale Law School (where he was also Robinna Foundation International Fellow), the University of Miami School of Law and the Catolica Global Law School, Lisbon. Before taking up his position in Oxford in 2004, he was Lecturer in Law at the University of Nottingham School of Law (1998-2000) and at the University of Durham (2000-2004). From 1994 to 1998, he taught international law (part-time) at the London School of Economics and at Christ's College and Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. Dapo has advised States, international organizations and non-governmental organizations on matters of international law. He has advised and assisted counsel or provided expert opinions in cases before several international tribunals and national courts. He has worked with the United Nations on issues relating to international humanitarian law and human rights law; acted as consultant for the African Union on the international criminal court and on the law relating to terrorism; and also as a consultant for the Commonwealth Secretariat on the law of armed conflict and international criminal law. He has also provided training on international law to diplomats, military officers and other government officials. He has varied research interests within the field of general international law and has published articles on aspects of the law of armed conflict, international criminal law, the law of international organizations, and international dispute settlement. Research Interests: Public International Law; Application of International Law in National Courts; International Law and the Use of Force; Law of International Organizations; International Dispute Settlement. Media expertise: Many appearances on BBC News, Radio, World Service and African Service on issues of international law and conflict worldwide. Comment for newspapers including The Guardian and Le Monde.
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 24, 2015 19:33:29 GMT
Professor Mashood Adebayo Baderin Mashood Baderin is currently Professor of Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He was formerly Professor of Law at the Brunel Law School, Brunel University, Uxbridge, West London; Reader in International Human Rights Law and Director of the International Law and Human Rights Unit, School of Law, University of the West of England, Bristol. He had also previously taught law at the School of Law, University of Nottingham, and the School of Law, University of Southampton. He has also been a Visiting Professor to the American University of Paris, Paris, France, and the Islamic Science University of Malaysia, Nilai, Malaysia. He is a qualified and experienced Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. He is founding co-editor of the Muslim World Journal of Human Rights. Professor Mashood Baderin of the School of Law has been appointed the UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the Sudan by the UN Human Rights Council (HRC). The appointment was announced at the end of its 19th Session in Geneva on 23 March 2012. For the next 12 months, Professor Baderin will be responsible for engaging with the Government of the Sudan with a view of identifying areas of assistance that will aid the country to fulfil its human rights obligations. He is required to submit a report to the HRC for consideration at its twenty-first session. Professor Baderin who is a specialist in human rights and Islamic law, said he felt honoured but very humbled by the international recognition. “I am determined to fulfill the responsibilities of the mandate most diligently and effectively,” he said. The Consultative Group of the HRC, who selected Baderin for the role, said about his appointment: "Mr. Baderin has extensive academic and in-country experience as a specialist in human rights and Islamic law. The Consultative group was impressed by Mr. Baderin's awareness of the issues specific to the situation in the Sudan, his ability to express a clear focused and practical approach to the mandate and his knowledge of the legal and cultural context.” The Group also remarked in particular on his ability to articulate the relationship between Islamic law and culture within Sudan. Professor Baderin’s responsibilities are outlined under paragraph 11 of the HRC Resolution 18/16. He performed similar duties in 2003 and 2008 for the Department for International Development (DIFD) as a specialist on scoping visits for the UK Government's ‘Safety and Access to Justice Project’ in the Sudan.
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 24, 2015 19:41:20 GMT
Professor Jacob K. Olupona
 Jacob K. Olupona is Professor of African Religious Traditions and Chair of the Committee on African studies at the Harvard Divinity School with a joint appointment as Professor of African and African American Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. His current research focuses on the religious practices of the estimated one million Africans who have emigrated to the United States over the last 40 years, examining in particular several populations that remain relatively invisible in the American religious landscape: "reverse missionaries" who have come to the United States to establish churches, African Pentecostals in American congregations, American branches of independent African churches, and indigenous African religious communities in the United States. His earlier research ranged across African spirituality and ritual practices, spirit possession, Pentecostalism, Yoruba festivals, animal symbolism, icons, phenomenology, and religious pluralism in Africa and the Americas. In his book City of 201 Gods: Ilé-Ifè in Time, Space, and the Imagination, he examines the modern urban mixing of ritual, royalty, gender, class, and power, and how the structure, content, and meaning of religious beliefs and practices permeate daily life. His other books include Òrìsà Devotion as World Religion: The Globalization of Yorùbá Religious Culture, co-edited with Terry Rey, and Kingship, Religion, and Rituals in a Nigerian Community: A Phenomenological Study of Ondo Yoruba Festivals, which has become a model for ethnographic research among Yoruba-speaking communities. In 2012, he was named one of Harvard's Walter Channing Cabot Fellows, for distinguished publications. Olupona has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, the Ford Foundation, the Davis Humanities Institute, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Getty Foundation. He has served on the editorial boards of three influential journals and as president of the African Association for the Study of Religion. In 2000, Olupona received an honorary doctorate in divinity from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and in 2007 he received the Nigerian National Order of Merit, that country's prestigious award given each year for intellectual accomplishment in the four areas of science, medicine, engineering/technology, and humanities.
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 24, 2015 19:43:02 GMT
Prof. Akintunde Ibitayo Akinwande Akintunde Ibitayo (Tayo) Akinwande is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Professor Akinwande received a B.Sc. (1978) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Ife, Nigeria, a MS (1981) and Ph.D. (1986) in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, California. Professor Akinwande joined Honeywell Inc. in 1986 where he initially conducted research on GaAs Complementary FET technology for very high speed and low power signal processing. He later joined the Si Microstructures group where he conducted research on pressure sensors, accelerometers, thin-film field emission and display devices. Professor Akinwande joined MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) in January 1995 where his research focuses on micro-fabrication and electronic devices with particular emphasis on smart sensors and actuators, intelligent displays, large area electronics (macro-electronics), field emission & field ionization devices, mass spectrometry and electric propulsion. Prof. Akinwande is a recipient of the 1996 National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award. He has served a number of technical program committees for various conferences, including the Device Research Conference, the International Electron Devices Meeting, the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, the International Display Research Conference and the International Vacuum Microelectronics Conference. Professor Akinwande holds numerous patents in MEMS, Electronics on Flexible Substrates, Display technologies and has authored more than 100 journal publications. He was a visiting professor at the Cambridge University Engineering Department and an Overseas Fellow of Churchill College in 2002-2003. He is a current member of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council. Research InterestsMicrostructures and nanostructures for sensors and actuators, and vacuum microelectronics. Devices for large area electronics and flat panel displays.
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 24, 2015 19:45:10 GMT
John Dabiri John Oluseun Dabiri (born 1980) is an biophysicist, professor of aeronautics and bioengineering, and dean at the California Institute of Technology. He is best known for his research of the hydrodynamics of jellyfish propulsion and the design of a vertical-axis wind farm adapted from schooling fish. He is the director of the Biological Propulsion Laboratory,[2] which examines fluid transport with applications in aquatic locomotion, fluid dynamic energy conversion, and cardiac flows, as well as applying theoretical methods in fluid dynamics and concepts of optimal vortex formation. Dabiri's parents are Nigerian immigrants, who settled in Toledo, Ohio, in 1975. Dabiri's father was a mechanical engineer who taught math at a community college. His mother, a computer scientist, raised three children and started a software development company. It was watching his father, who would occasionally do engineering work on the side, that encouraged Dabiri's love of engineering. John Dabiri is a professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty in 2015, he was Professor of Aeronautics and Bioengineering at Caltech, where he also served as Chairman of the Faculty and Dean of Undergraduate Students. His research focuses on science and technology at the intersection of fluid mechanics, energy and environment, and biology. Recent honors for this work include a MacArthur Fellowship, an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Popular Science magazine named him one of its "Brilliant 10" scientists in 2008. For his research in bio-inspired wind energy, Bloomberg Businessweek magazine listed him among its Technology Innovators in 2012, and MIT Technology Review magazine named him one of its 35 innovators under 35 in 2013. In 2014, he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Academic AppointmentsProfessor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor, Mechanical Engineering Honors & AwardsFellow, American Physical Society (2014) MacArthur Fellow, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (2010) Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), Office of Science and Technology Policy (2009) Professional EducationPh.D., California Institute of Technology, Bioengineering with minor in Aeronautics (2005) M.S., California Institute of Technology, Aeronautics (2003) B.S.E. summa cum laude, Princeton University, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (2001)
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 24, 2015 19:47:29 GMT
Dr. Adetokunbo Lucas Adetokunbo Lucas, who earned a master of science in hygiene at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) in 1964 and went on to play a major international role in fighting neglected tropical diseases, has won a Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Humanitarian Award from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID). Established by the NFID in 1997, the award honors individuals for work that has contributed significantly to the health and welfare of humankind. The first recipients were Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. Other previous recipients included Bill Clinton, Bill and Melinda Gates, and William Foege, MPH ’65, who helped eradicate smallpox. Appointed as professor of international health at HSPH in 1990 and, since 1995, an adjunct professor of population and international health, Lucas has worked over the years as a clinician, medical educator, researcher, administrator, policy specialist, and public health leader. In 1976, Lucas was appointed director of the World Health Organization’s Tropical Diseases Research Programme (TDR), run in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program and the World Bank. Under his 10-year leadership, the program collaborated with academic institutions and drug companies on the development of new products to fight leprosy, onchocerciasis (river blindness), African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), and other tropical diseases. “A new pattern of public-private partnership emerged from TDR’s collaboration with the pharmaceutical industry,” Lucas said in an interview, noting that several drug companies now donate medications to fight tropical diseases. “This new model of pharmaco-philanthropy is accelerating the elimination of major neglected tropical diseases.” Lucas came to study at HSPH in 1963—already armed with a medical degree and diplomas in public health and tropical medicine—to boost his skills in statistics and epidemiology. He later returned to his homeland, Nigeria, where he taught clinical and community medicine at the University of Ibadan, serving as head of the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine for 11 years. He noted that his decision in 1962 to switch his focus from clinical work to public health was “perhaps my most important contribution to health services in Nigeria.” Lucas was one of 20 distinguished people to receive the Harvard Medal at the university’s 350th anniversary celebration in 1986.
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 24, 2015 19:50:30 GMT
Dr. Olakunle Akinboboye Dr. Ola completed his internal medicine residency and part of his cardiology fellowship at the Nassau County Medical Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook. He subsequently moved to Columbia University, where he completed his fellowship in cardiology with one year of dedicated training in nuclear cardiology and another year of training in advanced echocardiography. He obtained a master’s degree in Public Health from the School of Public Health at Columbia University. He also received a master’s in Business Administration from Columbia Business School. Dr. Ola then served on the teaching faculty of Columbia University from 1995 to 2000. Today, his main areas of expertise include the diagnosis and treatment of coronary heart disease, particularly in patients with diabetes. He is a renowned expert in cardiac imaging, nuclear cardiology, echocardiography, CT angiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. Dr. Ola is also a renowned expert in the management of clinical hypertension (high blood pressure). He is one of the few Certified Specialists in clinical hypertension by the American Society of Hypertension. Awards, research and teaching activitiesDr. Ola was selected by Castle Connolly for inclusion in its prestigious Top Doctors: New York Metro Area – 9th ed. representing the top 10% of doctors in the region. He was also named by The Network Journal as one of the Best Black Doctors in the New York Tri-State area in 2005 and cited as one of the Top Docs in Cardiology by New York Magazine in 2006, 2007 and 2008. He received a humanitarian award from the College of Medicine at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria in 2005 for his ongoing efforts to teach cardiopulmonary resuscitation and save lives in Nigeria. He also received an award from the Association of Black Cardiologists for his dedicated service as a board member from 1999 to 2005 and is currently the organization’s national president. Dr. Ola is an accomplished clinician, teacher and researcher. In 1986, he received a four-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the effects of treatment on the cardiovascular complications of hypertension in African-Americans. Dr. Ola has also trained several generations of Fellows in Cardiology at New York Presbyterian Medical Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook and New York Hospital in Queens. Dr. Ola presently chairs the Eligibility Committee of the Board of Nuclear Cardiology and the CME Committee of the Association of Black Cardiologists. Professional affiliationsBoard-Certified: American Board of Cardiology, American Board of Nuclear Cardiology, American Board of Internal Medicine, American Board of Sleep Medicine Fellow: American College of Physicians Fellow: American College of Cardiology National President: Association of Black Cardiologists Member: American Heart Association, International Society of Hypertension in Blacks, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Certification Board of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 24, 2015 19:54:13 GMT
Prof. Winston Wole Soboyejo Winston Wole Soboyejo is an American Scientist of Nigeria parentage (son of Prof Alfred Sobojeyo of Ohio State University), currently a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University, with special interests in Material Science and Engineering. He is also the Director of the U.S./Africa Materials Institute, and the Director of the Undergraduate Research Program at The Princeton Institute of Science and Technology. His research focuses on experimental studies of biomaterials and the mechanical behavior of materials. Wole Soboyejo was educated at King's College London, and the University of Cambridge before returning to the United States in 1988 to become a research scientist at The McDonnell Douglas Research Labs in St. Louis, MO. In 1992, he worked briefly as a Principal Research Engineer at the Edison Welding Institute before joining the engineering faculty of The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. From 1997 to 1998, he was a Visiting Professor in the departments of mechanical engineering and materials science and engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Soboyejo moved to Princeton University in 1999 as a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is also the Director of the U.S./Africa Materials Institute, and the Director of the Undergraduate Research Program at The Princeton Institute of Science and Technology of Materials. His research focuses on experimental studies of biomaterials and the mechanical behavior of materials. Current areas of interest include micromechanical machines, nanoparticles for disease detection, biomedical systems for prostheses, and cardiovascular systems, infrastructure materials, and alternative energy systems. Professor Soboyejo is the Director of the Undergraduate Program in Materials at the Princeton Institute of Science and Technology of Materials.
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 24, 2015 19:58:07 GMT
Prof. Babatunde Ogunnaike Babatunde Ayodeji Ogunnaike (1956–present) is an American Chemical Engineer of Nigerian descent and the William L. Friend Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University Of Delaware (UD). He also is the dean of UD's College of Engineering. Babatunde was born on March 26, 1956 in Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun State, Nigeria. He attended the University of Lagos for his bachelor's degree, graduating with First Class Honours in Chemical engineering in 1976. He commenced academic work as a lecturer at the department of Chemical engineering, University of Lagos, in 1982 and became Senior Lecturer and successively, Associate Professor of Chemical engineering. He continued lecturing at the University of Lagos until 1988. He furthered his studies and earned an M.Sc. degree in Statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD in Chemical engineering also from the same University in 1981. He was a Research Engineer with the Process Control group of the Shell Development Corporation in Houston, Texas from 1981 to 1982. He worked as a researcher for DuPont and was also a consultant to several companies including Gore, PPG Industries, and Corning Inc. He joined the faculty of the University of Delaware in 2002 and became the Dean of the College of Engineering in July 2011. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the African University of Science and Technology, Abuja.[4] He is the author and editor of several books, papers and book chapters, used to educate engineers in instrumentation, systems and control at many universities. He was associate editor of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology and the American Chemical Society’s Industrial & Engineering Chemistry. His research focuses on modeling and control of industrial processes; the application of process analytical technology for control of pharmaceutical processes; identification and control of nonlinear systems; the interaction of process design and process operability; applied statistics; biological control systems; and systems biology with application to neuronal responses and cancer HonoursAmerican Institute of Chemical Engineers 1998 CAST Computing Practice Award 2004 University of Delaware’s College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching award, 2007 ISA Eckman Award 2008 AACC Control Engineering Practice award. Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering, Fellow of American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Statistical Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science American National Academy of Engineering
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 24, 2015 20:00:50 GMT
Dr. Soni Oyekan
Chemical Engineering Graduate Dr. Soni Oyekan receives the Percy L. Julian Award
Dr. Soni Oyekan has received the 2009 Percy L. Julian Award from the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers. The Percy L. Julian Award is the most prestigious award presented by NOBCChE. The award recognizes and honors a recipient's scientific contributions and achievements, dedication to research, commitment to the educational development of others and passion for the chemistry profession. Dr. Oyekan was specifically recognized for his contributions in oil refining and chemical engineering. He has 10 patents and numerous publications on a variety of topics in petroleum refining and catalysis.
Dr. Soni Oyekan has over 30 years experience in the field of petroleum refining and associated technologies. Soni came to the United States in 1966 from Nigeria and earned his B.S. degree from Yale University in 1970. He subsequently went on to garner M.S. (1972) and Ph.D. degrees (1977) from Carnegie Mellon University in chemical engineering. Soni is the Reforming and Isomerization Technologist of Marathon Oil Company. Soni's contributions in the chemical engineering profession are notable due to his contributions with respect to the efficient use of reactor engineering and catalysis in the processing of crude oil to meet consumer demands for transportation fuel, heating oil, propane and butane gases and for his extensive volunteer and leadership roles in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). Soni has held a variety of positions in AIChE.
The positions include chair of Fuels and Petrochemicals Division (F&PD), chair of the Minority Affairs Committee (MAC) and he served as a director of the AIChE Executive Board. He is a member of the AIChE Foundation Board of Trustees and a Fellow of the AIChE. Soni has contributed over the years in technical discussions on petroleum refining at the annual National Petroleum Refiners Association (NPRA) Q&A conferences. He has been honored for his academic achievements and research in petroleum refining. Soni is a member of Sigma Xi and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies. He is a member of the Yale Manuscript Society. He was honored by AIChE's Minority Affairs Committee (MAC) with MAC's Distinguished Service award in 2000. The Fuels and Petrochemicals Division honored him with its Distinguished Service award in 2002. He is listed in the 2000 13th edition of Who's Who Amongst African Americans. Dr Soni Oyekan was named an Eminent Black Chemical Engineer by MAC at the AIChE Centennial Meeting in 2008. He is the recipient of the AIChE MAC 2008 William W. Grimes award for excellent contributions in chemical engineering and mentoring of under represented minority groups.
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 24, 2015 20:02:44 GMT
Deborah Ajakaiye Deborah Enilo Ajakaiye (born 1940) is a Nigerian geophysicist. She is the first female physics professor in Africa and her work in geophysics has played an important role in mining in Nigeria. Ajakaiye was born in 1940 in the city of Jos, the capital of Plateau State in Nigeria. She was the fifth of sixth children. Her parents believed in equal education of the sexes and distributed household chores among both the male and female children. In 1962 she graduated from the University of Ibadan with a degree in physics. She received a master's degree at the University of Birmingham in England, and in 1970 received her Ph.D. in geophysics from Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria. Originally interested in mathematics, Ajakaiye says she chose to pursue geophysics because she believed it could help her country. Ajakaiye became the first female professor of physics in Africa in 1980. She has taught at Ahmadu Bello University and the University of Jos, serving as the dean of natural sciences at the latter. Her work with geovisualization has been used to locate both mineral deposits and groundwater in Nigeria. She has also created a map of the topography of Nigeria, working with several of her female students. Ajakaiye stated that many male scientists had changed their perception of women scientists after interacting with her and her students. Ajakaiye has been recognized for both her scientific advancements and her aid to the nation of Nigeria. The Nigerian Mining and GeoSciences Society honored her for her work, making her the first woman to receive the award. She was also the first black African to be named a fellow of the Geological Society of London
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 24, 2015 20:04:23 GMT
Prof. Bolaji Aluko Mobolaji E. Aluko (b. 2 April 1955; in Lagos, Nigeria) is a professor of Chemical Engineering at Howard University, Washington, DC, and was Chair of its department from 1994-2002. With an BSc degree (1976) in Chemical Engineering from the University of Ife (Nigeria; now Obafemi Awolowo University), he also attended Imperial College, University of London; University of California, Santa Barbara; and State University of New York, Buffalo (for graduate and post-doc studies). He has had sabbatical teaching and research stints at various times at the University of Washington, (Seattle; Materials Science Department); the University of Maryland (College Park; Chemical Engineering), and the Ekiti State University (Nigeria; Mechanical Engineering Department). He started teaching at Howard University in August 1984. His research interests are mathematical modeling, chemical reaction engineering, electronic materials processing, energy systems, information technology and education pedagogy. He is President/CEO of Alondex Applied Technologies, LLC: one-time Lead Consultant and International Coordinator of the LEAD Program at the National Universities Commission (NUC) in Nigeria; and Principal Academic Consultant and Member of the Board of AfriHUB (Nig.) Ltd., a ICT resource provider for universities in Nigeria. He is an activist and frequent commentator on Nigerian and African affairs. He was recently (February 2011) appointed as the Vice-Chancellor (i.e., University President) of the Federal University, Otuoke, in Bayelsa State of Nigeria, one of nine new federal universities established by the Federal Government. He is the uncle of professional footballer Sone Aluko who plays for Hull City in the Premier League, and Eniola Aluko who plays for Chelsea Ladies of the FA WSL.
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 24, 2015 20:17:40 GMT
Charles A. Adeogun-Phillips
 Charles Ayodeji Adeogun-Phillips (born in London, England, on 6 March 1966) is a former genocide and war crimes prosecutor, international lawyer, and founder of Charles Anthony (Lawyers) LLP. He's the son of Professor Anthony Adeyemi Adeogun, Professor Emeritus of Commercial and Industrial Law and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Lagos, an international labour law expert. His mother, Margaret Amba Ayinke Adeogun (née Williams), is a retired nurse and midwife. He is a grandson of Phillip Bamgbose and Theresa Fatola Adeogun of Ajale Compound Igbajo, Osun State, Federal Republic of Nigeria, and of Henry Isaac Kobina-Badu Williams, of Cape Coast, Republic of Ghana and Joanna Olasumbo Williams of Itesi, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Federal Republic of Nigeria. His name "Ayodeji" means "My joy is doubled" in Yoruba. He was educated at C.M.S Grammar School, Lagos, Nigeria's first secondary school (founded in 1859) and at Repton School in Derbyshire, England. He read law at Warwick University from where he graduated in 1989 and at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS), University of London, where he obtained his Master's degree in International Commercial Arbitration and ADR in 1994. He was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1992 and in 1996, as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. In March 2001 at the age 35, he was appointed senior trial attorney and lead counsel at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, leading teams of international lawyers in the prosecution of persons involved in the 1994 Rwandan genocide in which an estimated 800,000 civilians were killed.
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 24, 2015 20:43:23 GMT
Dr Tunde Ogowewo
 Dr Tunde Ogowewo is a Senior Lecturer at The Dickson Poon School of Law, Kings College London. He teaches Corporate Finance Law, Corporate Governance, and Mergers and Acquisitions Law at postgraduate level. Read less He is also a Joint Global Hauser Professor of Law at NYU Law School, New York and Visiting Professor of Corporate Governance at the National University of Singapore. He was co-editor of the Journal of African Law (Cambridge University Press) between 2000 and 2007 and is presently on the editorial board of the African Journal of International and Comparative Law (Edinburgh University Press) and the Securities Market Journal. He is a qualified Barrister (Middle Temple) and Solicitor (England and Wales) and a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. He also sits as arbitrator and has also acted as Counsel to the Federal Republic of Nigeria in investment disputes. His expertise is regularly sought by City firms and governmental agencies in litigation in the UK and in ICC and ICSID arbitrations
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