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Oluwasegun Adedayo Akanbi Yerokun

Segun was born the third of three boys in a family of six siblings. In the late 1970’s he joined his brothers at Benedict

College in Columbia South Carolina. The steady and calm spirit among the siblings, Segun proceeded to Michigan State
where he earned the Doctorate degree in Soil Science. It was in East Lansing that he met Dellia Mwale who became his
wife before they moved to Zambia her native homeland.

They are the proud parents of two siblings, Gbadero (Peaches),
now Mrs. Yonas and Peaches brother is Simeon who is
a legal practitioner in the Washington DC area.

As an Education Administrator, Soil Scientist,
Researcher Scientist, Lecturer and

Consultant, Segun has

accumulated extensive experiences
in tertiary education and agriculture and has been productive in the

academic, development and private sectors. His professional career activities
have been focused around three pillars: training and human resource

development, the improvement of farming community livelihoods through
increased income generation, and the sustainable management of natural resources.

As a senior administrator, he has successfully participated in academic development such as: interim leadership at the
helm of the University, establishing a new university agriculture faculty, and making significant contributions to
education management through units and the Senates at the Zambian Open University,

Mulungushi University and the University of Zambia.
He has been actively involved in strategic decision making as member of the
University Council/Board, University Senate, University Executive
Management Committee, and School Management Committee. He

established the agri-business marketing and logistics section
of a development organization. In the private sector, he successfully developed a
horticulture farm enterprise into one of the earliest agro-export businesses in

Zambia, characterized by careful planning, budgeting, fiscal control and
coordination of human resource. He has served as technical and scientific consultant

to various local and international organizations on a broad range of agriculture and
livelihoods related subjects. I have successfully trained numerous students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels

with several of the research outputs published in respectable journals.

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