Ajíbọ́láExperience · Education · Service
Research, policy, programme management and public engagement.
Professional appointments
Executive Director
Previously Head of Policy, December 2024–November 2025. Strategic leadership across research, policy and stakeholder engagement. AgTrade food-price monitoring model, Nigeria Food Security Index, index tracker and spatial vulnerability analysis.
Project Lead / Policy Consultant
Led the food security planning assignment, including baseline review, institutional analysis, stakeholder engagement and state planning. See the case study for documents and the distinct evidence for validation and adoption.
Policy Consultant
Policy advisory on supply-chain efficiency, innovation adoption, value-chain reform and institutional dialogue.
Project Manager (Contract)
Managed the approximately US$150,000 digital learning component of a wider Gates Foundation-funded maternal and newborn health programme. Scope included platform design, animation and learning content, tutor training, assessments, student-performance tracking and administrator/national dashboards. Project point of contact.
Founder & Principal Advisor
Policy and strategy advisory, government relations, regulatory and institutional analysis, applied research and programme delivery.
Project Manager, Government Affairs & Contracting
Government relations, contracting strategy and U.S. Local, state and federal compliance. Additional contracting assignments and precise delivery roles are documented on Policy & Practice.
Project Research Lead
Led research teams on development-partner assignments, including the IRC Afghanistan livelihoods portfolio review, Action Against Hunger/GFFO humanitarian-response work and IDMC returning-migrant research.
Manager, International & Medical Waste
Environmental compliance, regulatory engagement, public health and sustainability.
Project Manager
Municipal waste services and contractor coordination. Recycling and community participation. Contributions to Oyo State waste characterisation, the Solid Waste Management Master Plan and draft policy guidelines for 2020–2035.
Volunteer
Climate action, sustainability advocacy, youth engagement and community development.
Mathematics Teacher · NYSC
Mathematics, introductory statistics, quantitative reasoning, mentoring and academic support.
Education & formation
B.Sc. Food Technology · July 2016
Dissertation: Quantitative Analysis of Lemon (Citrus limon) Flavoured Beer Obtained from Sorghum (Sorghum bicolour).
Earlier education: Holy Infant Jesus Catholic School, Loyola College and Wesley College of Science, Ibadan.
Nigerian Breweries, Ibadan . technological and laboratory analysis internship, October 2014–March 2015. Food, Drug and Laboratory Services, Oyo State Ministry of Health . laboratory placement, May–July 2014. University of Ibadan Ventures . food production placement, November 2012–January 2013.
Research & published writing
My research examines agricultural markets, household welfare, shock transmission and institutional capacity, with Nigeria’s sub-national food systems as the primary empirical setting.
Public preprint, abstract, writing sample, data and code, and teaching interests.
Rising Together: Essays on the Nigerian Struggle and Our Path to Growth. MayWeather & Productivity.
Video catalogue, engagement archive, speech texts and press materials.
Additional manuscripts will be linked as they become publicly available.
Methods & continuing development
Panel data, time-series econometrics, structural breaks, cointegration, VECM/VAR, GIS, spatial analysis, QCA and institutional analysis.
R, Stata, SPSS, ArcGIS, QGIS, NVivo, Tableau, LaTeX/Overleaf and Julia.
Policy analysis, stakeholder engagement, proposal development, project management, cross-functional team leadership and training.
Fellowships, membership & service
Coordinator, Nigeria Christian Corpers’ Fellowship, Ota Zone (2017). Logistics and emergencies responsibilities in student electoral administration (2015). Finance and accounts, Independence Hall electoral commission (2015). Financial Secretary/Project Coordinator, Student Christian Movement, University of Ibadan (2014). Editor-in-Chief, Food Technology Press Organisation (2013). Publications and finance roles in student organisations (2012). Campus journalism and political-editor roles (2011).
Languages: English and Yorùbá.
Press & speaking materials