Akinwumi Adesina
Akinwumi Adesina was elected president of the African Development Bank Group in 2015 and re-elected in 2020. He served Nigeria’s minister of agriculture and rural development from 2011 to 2015. Previously, he was vice president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, and, earlier, served as associate director and regional director for the Southern Africa Office at the Rockefeller Foundation, principal economist for the West Africa Rice Development Association, senior economist for the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture and economist for the International Crops Research Institute for the Semiarid Tropics.
