Olukoya Ogen

Olukoya Ogen is a Nigerian Professor of History and former Provost of the Adeyemi College of Education Nigeria.

Olukoya Ogen obtained his PhD degree in History from the University of Lagos as well as a Certificate in Trade, Growth and Poverty from the World Bank Institute, Washington DC in 2006. He was a Leventis Scholar at the University of London in 2008; a British Academy Visiting Fellow at the University of Birmingham in 2009; a Cadbury Visiting Fellow in 2010; and an American Council of Learned Societies Postdoctoral Fellow in 2011. He was also the Country Director and Co-Investigator of a European Research Council Grant from 2012-2017. He specialises in the sociocultural and economic history of Nigeria.

Prior to joining Osun State University in 2009, he had stints at the University of Lagos, 2000-2001, Adekunle Ajasin University, 2001-2006, and Obafemi Awolowo University, 2006-2009. He was a Guest Researcher at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone in 2011, and was an ACLS Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Ibadan in 2012. He was appointed Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham in 2012; Visiting Full Research Professor at Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 2017 ; andEndowed Professor of Education by the American lCT University in Yaounde in 2018. He served as the Pioneer Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Osun State University from 2012-2014, and was appointed by the Federal Government as the Provost of Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo from 2014-2018. He is currently a federal government appointee on the Governing Council of the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro and a member of the TETfund National Research Fund Committee. In November 2018, the Board of Trustees of ICT University Foundation, USA appointed him as the Chairman of the Implementation Committee of its proposed ICT University in Nigeria.

He has won several international, national as well as local awards for his distinctive scholarship, exceptional administrative prowess and stellar community service. A recipient of two Lifetime Achievement Awards, he also received a Letter of Commendation from the 8th Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for accountability and integrity. He was appointed Honourary Mayor of the City of Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 2017. In 2019, won the prestigious Ali Mazrui Prize for Excellence in Scholarship and Academic Leadership.