Dr. Sunday Abayomi ADEBISI

Dr. Sunday Abayomi ADEBISI is an Associate Professor in the Department of Business Administration, and also the Ag. Director, Entrepreneurship and Skills Development Centre, University of Lagos, Nigeria.

In 2018, his proposal; African Entrepreneurship Development for Unemployment and Poverty Solutions (AEDUPS) won an African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) Centre of Excellence for University of Lagos to become the Leader and Hub in Africa for research in Sustainable Entrepreneurship for Unemployment Solutions. He is also the Director of this ARUA Research Centre of Excellence. He was also the Lead Researcher(Rocket Data Star) of the Regional Entrepreneurship Accelerated Program (REAP); an Entrepreneurship programme that University of Lagos conducted in partnership with the MIT, United States of America and successfully led the completion of the first two phases for the University.

Dr. Adebisi is a First-Class Honors graduate, with a Ph.D. degree in Business Administration. His specializations include; Sustainable Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship Innovation, Competitive and Comparative Strategy, International Business, and presently developing insight into Forensic Strategic Management.                           

He has published widely home and abroad and with about 50 journal articles and books to his credits. As part of his excellent performances in pragmatic research, Dr Adebisi was appointed the Project Manager and Research Advisor of the Commercial Pilot of M(E)thanol Clean Cookstoves Project of the Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo) in Lagos, Nigeria, the first of its kind project in West Africa. He was therefore seconded by the University to Shell for two years from April 2014 to March 2016 to oversee this Pilot Study.

He is a Scholar of the Soochow University China, with a fully sponsored research study by the Chinese Government between August 10 and December 10, 2013. His China’s research outcomes presented at the 2014 World Conference of the British Academy of Management (BAM) held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom won the International award of Best Full Paper in Performance Management and was the only award won by an African in the total 36 awards presented.

In June 2017, he also won another international Award of the EFMD 2016 Best African Case in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of many Professional and Academic bodies: Academy of International Business (AIB) USA; Strategic Management Society (SMS) USA; British Academy of Management (U.K.); The Academy of Management, Nigeria (TAMN); Nigerian Society for Financial Research (NSFR); Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM Chartered); and National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria (NIMN)

Education

B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.

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