Michael Oladimeji Faborode, a Professor of Agricultural Engineering and Registered Professional Engineer, is currently the Secretary-General of the Association of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (AVCNU/CVC). He served a 5-year tenure as Vice Chancellor, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-lfe, Nigeria, 2006-2011. Before then, he was Dean of Engineering (2002-2006) and Head of Department of Agricultural Engineering (1996-2002). He was President of the West African Society for Agricultural Engineering, 2002-2004, former Vice President, Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), and a Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers. He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering. Professor Faborode received his B.Sc and M.Sc degrees at the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-lfe, Nigeria and his Ph.D at the University of Newcastle upon Type, United Kingdom.
A thorough-bred academic, his academic accomplishments can be summarized by the fact that “even as Vice Chancellor, he was leading a British DFID funded research project and supervised PhD research students”. This commitment continues up until now. His research interests include biomaterial properties and bioprocess engineering; technology policy; technology, gender and development, and currently higher education and development. He was recently a Resident Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation Study Centre at Bellagio, Italy, working on his upcoming texts: “Triumph of Good in the Forest of a Thousand Demons” and “Higher Education for Development”.