ADEWALE SOLARIN, FMAN, FPNGMS, FNMS, a Professor of Mathematics, was the Director/Chief Executive Officer, National Mathematical Centre (NMC), Abuja, from 31st March, 2013 to 1st August, 2016. He was the President of African Mathematical Union (AMU), July, 2013 – July, 2017. He is currently, President, African Mathematical Union Pan African Mathematics Olympiads Commission (AMU-PAMOC). Chairman, Board of Trustees, Nigerian Women in Mathematics. He was appointed COMSATS Distinguished Professor of Mathematics in 2014. He was appointed a member of the Scientific Board of UNESCO’s International Basic Science Programme, Paris, France on 28th January, 2015 and UNESCO Chair of Mathematics the same year. At the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria, he was Deputy Vice – Chancellor (Dec. 2004 to Dec. 2006), a member of the Governing Council of (2000-2006); Director, Academic Planning, (2000-2004); Head, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun
State, Nigeria (1997-2000).
Adewale wrote his M. Sc. thesis in Statistics and Ph. D. thesis in Algebra. He has supervised theses (B. Sc., M. Sc., Ph. D., PGD, MBA and MBF) in topics in Mathematics, Statistics, Quality Control, Computer Science, and Business Management in Nigeria and abroad. He has supervised or co-supervised more than 50 postgraduate theses, eleven
(11) of them are full professors.
Adewale was the brain behind the establishment of International Academy for the Gifted Ltd/Gte (IAGIFTED) www.iagifted.org in 2008, as a respond to the clarion call from African Academics in Diaspora for him to extend his mentorship of young Africans in the universities to the lower level to catch them young.
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