Jimi O. Adesina is the Chair in Social Policy at the College of Graduate Studies, University of South Africa. Educated at the University of Ibadan (Nigeria) and Warwick University (UK), Adesina taught at the University of Ibadan (Nigeria), was a Professor of Sociology at Rhodes University (South Africa), and Professor and Head of Department at the University of Western Cape (South Africa). He has held visiting appointments at Ulster University, Derry (Northern Ireland), University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), Oxford University (UK), Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala University (Sweden), UNECA (Addis Ababa), and the UN Research Institute for Social Development (Geneva).
A past president of the South African Sociological Association (2004-2006), Adesina was elected to the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) in 2005. He served on the Board of the UN Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva (2013 – 2019) and the Board of RC19 of the International Sociological Association (2014 to 2018). His research interests include Sociology, Social Policy, and the Political Economy of Africa’s Development. He has published widely in these areas.
