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Aderanti ADEPOJU

 

 

ADEPOJU, economist/demographer, was trained at the University of Ife, Nigeria and at the London School of Economics where he received his PhD in Demography in 1973. He was Professor and Head, Department of Demography and Social Statistics, University of Ife, Research Professor and Head, Research and Advisory Services Unit and later Dean, Faculty of Business Administration, University of Lagos.

 

He was a pioneer Regional Adviser on Population and Labour Policy for Africa for the I.L.O, in Addis Ababa in the mid 70s; UN Chief Technical Adviser to the Government, and University of Swaziland in the mid 80s, and in the decade 1988-1998, was Training Co-ordinator, Population, Human Resources and Development in Africa for UNFPA.

 

Adepoju has assisted several African countries in capacity building, strategy development and in the development and implementation of population and development programmes. He has served as a consultant or team leader for several missions, including African Development Bank, UNFPA, OAU, ECA, The World Bank, UNDP, FAO, IOM, UNESCO, UNHCR, and for a variety of research activities sponsored by international development agencies.

 

He has served on the International Advisory Committee of UNFPA; U.S. National Academy of Sciences Committee on Population, UNHCR External Research Advisory Committee, Editorial Advisory Board of International Migration and International Migration Review and President of the Union for African Population Studies.

 

He is a member of the, among others, International Sociological Association, Society for International Development, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Union for African Population Studies, and currently Co-ordinator, UNESCO/MOST Network on Migration Research in Africa and Chief Executive, Human Resources Development Centre, Lagos.

 

Adepoju has published numerous books and scientific articles on population and sustainable development issues, poverty, migration; human resources development, gender and development in Africa. Many of these publications have been translated into French for wider circulation. He has organized, participated in, and chaired scientific meetings on population and migration in the region and served as key resource person to African delegations in international and regional conferences.