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Prof Ogechi Adeola, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) of the University of Kigali, Rwanda, is dedicated to empowering African women, as shown through her significant contributions to gender issues. Formerly Head of Department of Operation, Marketing and Information Systems at Lagos Business School, Nigeria, she has published extensively, including two edited books on gender perspectives related to COVID-19 recovery and sustainable development in Africa, and a co-authored work on gender, climate action, and technology. In 2022, she served as a consultant for the International Labour Organization on a project for women’s economic empowerment in Nigeria. She also coached utility companies in Liberia and Ghana under the USAID Engendering Industries Workforce Accelerated Program, focusing on improving gender equality in male-dominated companies. Adeola founded the Digital Business Tutelage for Women Empowerment in Africa Initiative, aiming to help young African women realize their potential. Her efforts earned her the Female Achievers Recognition Award in 2022 and The Peak Performing Woman of the Year 2023 Award in Executive Education.

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Adeola, O., Evan, O., & Ngare, I. (2023). Gender Equality, Climate Action, and Technological Innovation for Sustainable Development in Africa. Springer. Open Access: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-40124-4
Adeola, O. (Ed.). (2022). Gendered Perspective on Covid-19 Recovery in Africa: Towards Sustainable Development. Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-88152-8
Adeola, O., Igwe, P. A., & Evans, O. (2022). Women Economic Empowerment and Post-pandemic Recovery in Africa: Normalising the “Un-Normal” Outcome of Covid-19. In Gendered Perspective on Covid-19 Recovery (pp. 305-327). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Kimbu, A. N., de Jong, A., Adam, I., Ribeiro, M. A., Afenyo-Agbe, E., Adeola, O., & Figueroa-Domecq, C. (2021). Recontextualising gender in entrepreneurial leadership. Annals of Tourism Research, 88, 103176.
Ribeiro, M. A., Adam, I., Kimbu, A. N., Afenyo-Agbe, E., Adeola, O., Figueroa-Domecq, C., & de Jong, A. (2021). Women entrepreneurship orientation, networks and firm performance in the tourism industry in resource-scarce contexts. Tourism Management, 86, 104343.
Adeola, O. (2020). The Digital Gender Divide and Women's Empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Achieving the U.N.'s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. In Empowering African Women for Sustainable Development (pp. 145-156). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Afenyo-Agbe, E. A., & Adeola, O. (2020). Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Through Tourism in Africa: Towards Agenda 2030. In Empowering African Women for Sustainable Development (pp. 121-132). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Adeola, O. (Eds.) (2020). Empowering African Women for Sustainable Development – Toward the U.N.'s Sustainable Development. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-59102-1
Adeola O.(2020). Nigeria’s female mechanics show how young African women can be empowered. Open Democracy. Retrieved from https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/womens-entrepreneurial-journeys/nigerias-lady-mechanics-show-how-young-african-women-can-be-empowered/
Kimbu, A. N., Ngoasong, M. Z., Adeola, O., & Afenyo-Agbe, E. (2019). Collaborative networks for sustainable human capital management in women's tourism entrepreneurship: The role of tourism policy. Tourism Planning & Development, 16(2), 161-178.
Adeola, O., Ngoasong, M., Olaniyi, E. (2018). The gender question and family entrepreneurship research. In V. Ratten, V. Braga, C. S. Marques (Eds.), Knowledge, learning and innovation: Research insights on cross-sector collaborations (pp. 159 – 176). Springer, Switzerland.

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Prof. Ogechi Adeola (Deputy Vice Chancellor Academic, University of Kigali) Rwanda

Biography

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Country and Global

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Member of other Expert Networks

Sustainable Development Goals

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