Buhari Appoints Odusanya as Director General of NACETEM
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr. Olushola Odusanya as the Director General/ Chief Executive Officer of National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM), Ile Ife, Osun State.
The President’s approval was conveyed to him through a letter signed by the Minister of State for Science, Technology and Innovation, Chief Henry Ikechukwu Ikoh. The appointment takes effect from 1st of May 2023.
Until his new appointment, Dr. Odusanya was the Director of the Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Advanced Research Center of the Sheda Science and Technology Complex (SHESTCO), Abuja, and the pioneer leader of the
Environmental Biotechnology Group at the Biotechnology Center of SHESTCO.
He obtained Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) and Master of Science (M.Sc) degrees in Biochemistry at the College of Medicine of the University of Lagos (CMUL) in 1987 and 1993 respectively. He later obtained his Ph.D in Food Science and Technology in 1999 from the Department of
Food Science and Technology, University Sains Malaysia. He capped it up with a post-doctoral fellowship at the Post Graduate School of Chemical Engineering and Rheology, Himeji Institute of Technology, Shosha, Japan.
A consummate scholar, he has been a visiting scholar at the Materials and Aerospace Engineering School of Princeton University, USA. He has also been a visiting Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the African University of Science and Technology (AUST), Abuja. He was also the Co-Center Leader of the World Bankfunded Pan African Materials Institute (PAMI) of AUST and, until his appointment, the Director of the Center for Projects-Based Learning at AUST.