Nigerian Professor Ogechi Adeola who currently serves at the Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Kigali, Rwanda, was recently ranked among the world’s top 2% scientists in the 2025 publication of the Stanford–Elsevier Global Scientist Ranking.
Who is This High – Flying Nigerian Academic?
Professor Ogechi Adeola is a Nigerian business/marketing scholar and academic. She holds a Doctorate in Business Administration and a Master of Business Administration from Alliance Manchester Business School, United Kingdom. She also earned 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.
Professor Ogechi Adeola is a Fellow of the Institute of Strategic Management, Nigeria and the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria. She was ranked No. 1 in Nigeria for Marketing and among top scientists in business/management fields in Nigeria, per the Alper-Doger Scientific Index.
Academic Career
She has served as a visiting academic fellow at the Open University Business School (OUBS) and a senior lecturer at the Lagos Business School. She currently serves as chair of African Interdisciplinary Studies (AIS) at Pan-Atlantic University Press.
In her ten year spell at the Lagos Business School, she served in various capacities and rose to the position of Head of Department, Operations, Marketing and Information systems. She has also served as an Associate Dean of Business Administration and Member of the Business Administration Advisory Board at the University of the People.
She currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at the Torrens University, Australia in addition to her role at the University of Kigali, Rwanda. Before rising to the position of Deputy Vice Chancellor, she has served as a member of the University’s Board of Directors.
A professor of Marketing, she has also served as the University’s Deputy Vice Chancellor, Academics; and currently combines that with her role of Deputy Vice Chancellor, Administration & HR.
Robust Business Profile
Professor Ogechi Adeola is a board member of The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture Business Incubation Platform (IITA-BIP), She is also an Independent Non-Executive Director at Cornerstone Insurance Plc.
She serves as a consultant with Afreximbank’s African Sub-Sovereign Governments Network (AfSNET) Initiative and as an International Trade Adviser with the Nigeran – British Chamber of Commerce amongst other roles.
She founded the Digital Business Tutelage for Women Empowerment in Africa Initiative (DBTWEAi), a non-profit platform that provides young African women with mentorship and practical guidance to unlock their potential in the digital business space and Al.
Her consultancy track record spans other international clients and institutions such as the London Taxi Company (UK), Texas Capital Bank (USA), Dusit International (Thailand), the International Labour Organization, and the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), where she contributed to projects like the “Building Africa Report.”
Before transitioning fully into academia and advisory roles, Adeola spent over a decade in Nigeria’s financial services sector, including at Citibank Nigeria, where she held responsibilities in product development, marketing, sales, and customer service.