Abiodun Egbetokun

Abiodun Egbetokun possesses a multidisciplinary background and extensive experience in policy-relevant research. He currently teaches business management at De Montfort University (DMU), Leicester, UK.

Before joining DMU, he served as deputy director of research at Nigeria’s National Centre for Technology Management, where he helped develop and evaluate government policies and programmes. He has held visiting research fellowships at the University of Oxford and the United Nations University (UNU-MERIT) in Maastricht, in addition to a Science Policy Fellowship from the US National Science Foundation. Abiodun is a fellow of the Nigerian Young Academy and a member of the Development Studies Association, the British Academy of Management, the Chartered Management Institute, and the African Network for the Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence-Building Systems (AfricaLICS).

He has secured research funding from esteemed organisations such as the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), and the British Academy, among others. He consults regularly for international organisations including UNIDO, GIZ, and the African Union Commission.