Adebayo Adedeji, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Adebayo Adedeji

politician

Date of Birth: 21-Dec-1930

Place of Birth: Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, Nigeria

Date of Death: 25-Apr-2018

Profession: politician, economist, diplomat, university teacher

Nationality: Nigeria

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Adebayo Adedeji (21 December 1930 – 25 April 2018) was a Nigerian economist and academic.
A full-fledged Professor at the age of 36 years, he was Nigeria's Federal Commissioner for Economic Development & Reconstruction from 1971 to 1975.
He was responsible for the economic development and reconstruction of post-civil war Nigeria.
In June 1975, he was appointed Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and remained in this position until July 1991.
Adedeji wrote the Lagos Plan of Action of 1980 that was adopted by the UN and OAU.
On his return to Nigeria, he founded the African Centre for Development and Strategic Studies (ACDESS), a non-governmental independent continental non-profit, think-tank dedicated to multi-disciplinary and strategic studies on and for Africa.
He received the national honor of Commander of the Federal Republic.[1] In December 2010, after turning 80, he retired from public life and spent the last years of his life quietly in his home town of Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, Nigeria.