President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr. Olushola Odusanya as Director General/Chief Executive Officer of National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM), Ile Ife, Osun State.
The appointment was conveyed in a letter by the Minister of State for Science, Technology and Innovation, Chief Henry Ikechukwu Ikoh. It takes effect from May 1, 2023.
Until the appointment, Dr. Odusanya was the Director of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Advanced Research Center of the Sheda Science and Technology Complex (SHESTCO), Abuja, and pioneer leader of the Environmental Biotechnology Group at the Biotechnology Center of SHESTCO.
Odusanya obtained a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Biochemistry at the College of Medicine, University of Lagos (CMUL) in 1987 and 1993. He got his PhD in Food Science and Technology in 1999 from the 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.
Aged 57, the Lagos-born Odunsanya is married with children