Adesina, Akinwumi A

LC control no.	no 94030868
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Adesina, Akinwumi A. *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Adesina, Akin Adesina, Akinwumi Ayodeji
Associated country	Nigeria
Associated place	United States Côte d'Ivoire
Birth date	1960-02-06
Field of activity	Rural development Agriculture--Economic aspects Food security Banks and banking African cooperation
Affiliation	African Development Bank Group African Development Bank Nigeria. Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa West Africa Rice Development Association Rockefeller Foundation Scaling Up Nutrition (Program)
Profession or occupation	Economists Agricultural economists Bank directors
Found in	Institutional capacity for regional cooperation ... 1993: t.p. (Akinwumi A. Adesina, WARDA) Industrialize Africa, 2017: page v (Akinwumi Ayodeji Adesina; president, African Development Bank Group) Wikipedia, October 23, 2018 (Akinwumi Adesina; Akinwumi "Akin" Adesina; elected President, African Development Bank, in 2015 (first Nigerian to hold the post); previously Nigeria's Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, 2010-2015; until his appointment as Minister in 2010, he was Vice President of Policy and Partnerships for the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA); born 6 February 1960 in Ibadan, Oyo State; bachelors in agricultural economics 1981, University of Ife; PhD in agricultural economics 1988, Purdue University, Indiana; senior economist at WARDA, Bouaké, Ivory Coast, 1990-1995; representative of the Rockefeller Foundation 1999-2003, for the southern African area; associate director for food security for the Foundation, 2003-2008; in 2016 he was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to serve as a member of the Lead Group of the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement; awarded World Food Prize in 2017)
Associated language	eng