Victor EzejaA Nigerian Professor of Marketing, Ogechi Adeola, has been appointed as Deputy Vice Chancellor Academic (DVCA), of the University of Kigali, Rwanda.
According to a statement released on Thursday by the University, the Governing Body of the institution approved the appointment with effect from 11 January 2024.
Before her appointment, Professor Adeola was the Associate Dean of Business Administration at the University of the People, California, USA. She currently serves as a Business Administration Advisory Board member in the University.
She is also the immediate past Head of Department of Operations, Marketing and Information Systems at the Lagos Business School (LBS), Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria and the Academic Director of LBS Sales Academy.
Until her appointment as Deputy Vice Chancellor-Academic, Adeola has served as a member of the Board of Directors at the University of Kigali.
She has over 28 years of relevant work experience both in industry and academia. She spent over a decade on various in roles within Nigeria’s financial sector, starting her career at Citibank Nigeria.
By educational training, Professor Adeola is a multidisciplinary scholar with background in marketing/ business management and law.
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She holds Doctorate degree in Business Administration and a Master of Business Administration from Alliance Manchester Business School, United Kingdom. She bagged a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Nigeria and obtained a Barrister at Law certificate from the Nigerian Law School, after which she was called to the Nigerian bar.
According to the statement, Adeola also attended various “executive education programs at globally renowned institutions, including Harvard Business School, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, London Business School, and Cranfield School of Management.”
As as lecturer, she taught Marketing Management across various programs at Lagos Business School. As a scholar she has areas of research interests spaning “marketing strategy, sustainability, tourism, and gender studies, with a particular focus on projecting the dynamics of African business concepts and practices and has published articles on several academic and practitioner journal titles.
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Apart from teaching and scholarship, Adeola is also an entrepreneur and consultant where she has demonstrated expertise in strategic marketing and brand management, intra-regional advisory, and gender equity services to numerous organisations across the globe including Texas Capital Bank, USA (2018); and Dusit International (Dusit Thani), Thailand (2021) and Afreximbank, among others.
She is an Independent Non-Executive Director at Cornerstone Insurance Plc, Nigeria.
She is the founder of the Digital Business Tutelage for Women Empowerment in Africa Initiative (DBTWEAi), a non-profit platform designed to enable young African women to unlock their potential.
“Her contributions to women’s empowerment were recognised with the prestigious Female Achievers Recognition Award in March 2022, co-hosted by American Corner in Lagos and in June 2023, she was honored with The Peak Performing Woman of the Year 2023 Award in the Super Achievers category for Executive Education by The Peak Performer.”
She is also a Fellow of both the Institute of Strategic Management, Nigeria and the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria, the statement added.
Victor Ezeja is a passionate journalist with six years of experience writing on economy, politics and energy. He holds a Masters degree in Mass Communication.
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