Professor Jide Owoeye was born on the 1st of March 1956, in Ibadan, Nigeria; he is married to Mrs. T.T. Owoeye and their marriage was blessed with four lovely children.

Professor Jide Owoeye graduated from University of Ibadan in 1997 with B.SC(Hons) in Sociology. He received his M.Sc., 1981 and PhD, 1988 in international relations respectively at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife and post graduate diploma in distance Education 1998.

In 1982-83, at the Obafemi Awolowo University, professor Jide Owoeye served as Administrative Officer 1, Graduate Assistant 1983-84, Assistant lecturer 1983-1986, Lecturer 11 1986-88, Lecturer 1 1988-1990, Senior Lecturer 1991-96, Reader 1996-2002 and Professor 2002 to date.

He was a fellow of Korean Government visiting fellowship Award in South Korea in 1990, visiting fellow, Academy of Korean Studies, 1992. Senior visiting fellow, Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security, Seoul, South Korea 1993. Senior fellow, Nigeria Institute of International Affairs, Lagos 1992-1993, visiting fellow, Africa Institute of South Africa 1994-97 and Associate Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan.

Professor Jide Owoweye id recipient of the following National Award, distinguished Alumni Award, 60th Anniversary of Olivet Baptist High School, Oyo 2006, Certificate of Meritorious Service to Obafemi Awolowo University, 2006 and World Quality commitment International Award in Gold, 2006 by Business initiative directions (BID) Pans, France.

He is a member to many professional bodies locally and internationally, a Fellow, International Center of Asian Studies, Hong Kong, Immediate past secretary general, Nigerian Society of international Affairs member American Studies Association of Nigeria, member Korea Nigerian Association and Fellow, Institute of Corporate Affairs Management.

He is proprietor of Lead City University and Chairman of the Council of the University.

Professor Wieland Gevers qualified in Medicine with First Class Honours at the University of Cape Town in 1960, and proceeded as a Rhodes Scholar to Oxford University to obtain the DPhil degree in 1966 under Sir Hans Krebs (regulation of liver metabolism).  He subsequently spent four postdoctoral years in the laboratory of another Nobelist, Dr Fritz Lipmann, at the Rockefeller University in New York (biosynthesis of peptide antibiotics) before returning to South Africa in 1970.

He was Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor responsible for planning and academic process at the University of Cape Town from 1992 until the end of 2002, and Professor of Medical Biochemistry since 1978.  He was (founder) President of the South Africa Biochemical Society from 1975-6, and again President from 1981-2.

Otunba (Dr) Kuforiji graduated from University of London in 1963 with B. Sc honours  in Economics.

A fellow of Institute of Charted Accountants, England and Wales 1977, ICAN Nigeria 1976, British Chartered institutes of company Secretaries (ACIS 1964). Nigerian Institute of management (FMIN) 1985, British Institute of Directors.

She is a recipient of the following honours and awards: Doctor of Business administration from Enugu State University of Science and Technology, 1997, Doctor of Laws, LLD ( Honoris Causa) Bayero University, Kano, 2004, Doctor of letter (Honories Causa) , Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago  Iwoye Ogun State 2006.

Professor Olufemi Adebisi Bamiro  obtained the Shell-BP Scholarship for his undergraduate degree programme in Mechanical Engineering at the Nottingham University, England where he graduated with First Class Honours in 1971.

Professor Bamiro wears the twin cap of an academic and a professional As an academic, he obtained his Ph.D from McGill University, Canada. He was promoted Senior Lecturer in 1978. Reader in 1981 and Professor of Mechanical Engineering in 1983.

As a professional engineer, Professor Bamiro has served the Nation and the Engineering Bodies in several capacities.

He is a member of the National Energy Panel (1984); member  Implementation Committee of the National Science and Technology Policy (NSTP). (1987); at present, he is the Vice-Chancellor, University of Ibadan.

Angelo Menfredo Azzi got his master degree (MD) in general medicine in 1963, Ph.D in general Pathology, all from the University of Padova, Italy and  full Professor 1976  1977 university of Padova, Professor and head of a department 1977.

He was chairman of the UNESCO Molecular Cell Biology Network (MCBN),Vice president of the international society of vitamins and related Biofactors, Director of the scientific council of the Warsaw international Institute of cell and Molecular Biology, president of the European for free radical research.

LUCIO LUZZATTO was born in Geneva, Italy on September 28, 1936. Married to Paola Caboara Luzzatto, with two children, Stefano and Fatima. Qualified MD from the University of Genova Medical School in 1959. Trained in haematology in Pavia, and at Columbia University in New York. Obtained Liberia Docenza in Biochemistry in 1968. From 1964 to 1974 was lecturer then professor of haematology at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan Nigeria. From 1974-1981 was Director of the International Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, CNR, Napoli, Italy. In 1981 Lucio Luzzato succeeded Sir John Dacie as Professor of Haematology and Director of the Haematology Department at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, University of London, Hammersmith Hospital, where from 1981-1993 he was also Honorary Director of the MRC/LRF Leukemia Department of Human Genetics at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics, Cornell University Medical College, New National Institute for Cancer Research, Genova, Italy, where in 2002 he was also appointed to a personal Chair of Haematology. Lucio Luzzatto obtained FRCPath in 1982 and FRCP in 1983, and obtained Medical Licenses in Italy, Nigeria, UK and New York State.

Lucio Luzzatto holds a honorary degree in Pharmacy from the University of Urbino (1990), and an honorary DSc from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria (1998). He is honorary member of the American Society of Haematology, he has been Founding President of the Nigerian Society for Haematology, President of the Italian Association of Genetics, Chairman of the Ethics Committee of the American Society for Gene Therapy, member of EMBO since 1979, of HUGO since 1990 and member of the American Association of Physicians. Lucio Luzzatto has obtained several awards, including the William Dameshek Medal (1975), the Pius XI Medal (1976), Jose Carreras Medal (2002). In 2004 he was elected Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Lucio Luzzatto’s main goal in research and teaching has been the understanding of human disease at the molecular level; throughout his career he has always combined scientific work and clinical work. His research has concentrated on the genetic basis of blood disorders. Main contributions. (a) Mlecular Genetics, clinical aspects and populations genetics of glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase(G6PD); this was the first human enzyme of which molecular cloning was achieved with M G Perisco in 1986. (b) Genetics of haemoglobinopathies and inherited susceptibility to malaria. Lucio Luzzatto’s group helped to elucidate since the nineteenseventies the mechanism whereby several genes expressed in red cells confer relative resistance against lethality of Plasmodium falciparum. In year 2000 Luzzatto collaborated with M Sadelain to obtain correction of thalassaemia by gene therapy in a pre-clinical mouse model. (c) Pathogenesis, molecular basis and clinical aspects of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuruia (PNH). Lucio Luzzatto with his collaborators first provided evidence that this was a clonal disorder; subsequently his group identified the underlying biochemical abnormality, and with Bruno Rotoli and others provided the currently accepted model to explain the expansion of PNH clones. Lucio Luzzato has about 300 publications in learned journals and several chapters in major textbooks.

Michael T. Clegg received his BS and PhD degrees in agricultural genetics respectively at the University of California, Davis. In 1972 he joined the faculty of Brown University moving from there to the University of Georgia in 1976. In 1984, he became Professor of Genetics at the University of California, Riverside. He also served as Dean of the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at UC Riverside from 1994 to 2000 and he was the founding Director of the Genomics Institute at UC Riverside, serving from 2000 to 2004. In 2004 he assumed his present position as Donald Bren Professor of Biology at the University of California, Irvine.

During an academic career of over 35 years Clegg has published more than 150 research articles and book chapters and he has authored or edited eight books. Clegg’s research specialty is population genetics and molecular evolution. His early work in population genetics focused on the dynamical behavior of linked system s of genes in plant and Drosophila populations. During this period, he also contributed to the theoretical study of multilocus systems employing computer simulations together with the analysis of mathematical models. Later, he helped pioneer the comparative analysis of chloroplast DNA variation as a tool for the reconstruction of plant phylogenesis. His current work is concerned with the comparative genomics of plant gene families, the molecular evolution of genes in the flavonoid biosynthetic pathway, the use of coalescent models to study crop plant domestication and the application of molecular markers to avocado improvement.

Clegg has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship (1981) and the Darwin Prize of Edinburgh University (1995). Clegg was elected t membership in the US National Academy of Sciences in 1990 and he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts in 2002 and reelected in 2006. He has also served as President of the American Genetic Association (1987), President of the International Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution (2002) and Chair of the Section on Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2003).

On 18th August 1943,  started his career as a banker at Cooperative Bank Plc. Ibadan in 1960. Professionally he is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, UK; Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Nigeria and Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Nigeria. He formally disengaged from Cooperative Bank in 1983 to focus his attention on the family’s fledging trading Business. For over twenty years, he has been chairman of the Honeywell Group, which he has nurtured into a conglomeration of highly successful businesses, comprising investments in energy, foods: infrastructure, real estate and services. An astute and highly visionary investor cu entrepreneur, his domestic and foreign interests cut across diverse economic sectors. In September 2006, he was elected the 16th president of the Nigerian Stock Exchange thereby assuming the responsibility of inspiring step change transformation of the Nigerian capital market

Oba Otudeko is presently Chairman of the Boards of FBN Bank (UK) Limited, First Trustees Nigeria Limited, Fan Milk of Nigeria Plc., Lagos Sheraton Hotel, Nigerian-Netherlands Chamber of Commerce, and Khalil & Dibbo (Haulage) Limited.

As a public-spirited leader, he was formerly Chairman of the National Maritime Authority; Director, Central Bank of Nigeria; Member, Constituent Assembly responsible for drafting a new Constitution, 1988 to 1989, and Council Member, Manufactures’ Association of Nigeria. Outside Nigeria, he hold directorship positions in private companies operating in real estate, international trad and finance, including the West Africa Banking Group, Ecobank Transnational Inc., Togo.

Over the years, he has attended management courses at several prestigious institutions, amongst which are the Harvard Business School, the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne Switzerland, and the Arthur D. Little School of Management.

He was the Chancellor, Olabisi Onabanjo University (formerly Ogun State University), Ago-Iwoye in Nigerian(2001 – 2010) and a member of the Africa Regional Advisory Board of London Business School. In recognition of his many contributions to the economic and social development of Nigeria, Oba Otudeko has, at various times, been conferred with many awards and honours. Among such honors and awards are: Member of the Order of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (MFR) in 2000 from the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which was upgraded to the Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (OFR) in 2002; he was again upgraded to Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (CFR) in November 2011 Honourary Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) from Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye; Paul Harris Fellow Award of Rotary International; Honorary Citizen of Dallas Texas, USA, and Honoured Citizen of Meziara, Lebanon, amongst other awards.

Professor Christopher J. Chatsanga graduated from University of Califonia and Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, USA, Ph. D. in Biochemistry and  molecular Biology at the same University in 1969. His post  doctorial study at NIH research fellow in Professor Paul Doty’s Laboratory. He was an instructor in Biochemistry, department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Harvard University, Cambridge. He is a professor of Biochemistry.