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Place of Birth: Ondo State, Nigeria
About Adetokunbo Kayode
- Adetokunbo Kayode is a Nigerian corporate lawyer, tax expert and international arbitrator.
- He attended CMS GRAMMAR SCHOOL, in Lagos, the oldest Secondary School in Nigeria with the 1970/74/76 set.
- He is a Senior Advocate Of Nigeria (SAN), and a Life Bencher, respectively, the highest rank and the highest honor a practicing lawyer may attain in Nigeria.
- He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitration, UK; Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Mediators and Conciliators of Nigeria; and Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria. He studied law at the University of Lagos, Nigeria Law School, Lagos, Strategic Leadership at the Oxford and Cambridge Universities, Strategy and Public Communications at the World Bank/ Annenberg Program of the University of Southern California, as well as Strategic Negotiations training at the Harvard University. He has served the Government of Nigeria as cabinet minister in four different positions: Culture and Tourism; Labour, Employment; Federal Attorney General and Hon Minister of Justice and as Minister of Defence.
- He chairs the Peace and Security Committee of the Pan African Lawyers Union, Daresallam, Tanzania. Kayode has business interests in law, agriculture, power and mining.
- He is on the board of the National Associations of Chambers of Commerce, Industry Mines and Agriculture of Nigeria, Nigerian Chamber of Mines, Nigeria Association of Investment Promotion Agencies. He Chairs the Boards of the Gemological Institute of Nigeria, Gems Miners and Marketers Association of Nigeria as well as the Board of Trustees of the National Association of Small Scale Industrialists responsible for small and medium enterprises development (SMEs) in Nigeria, and the Nigeria Private Sector Alliance.
- He represents the Nigeria Organised Private Sector (OPS) on Nigerian official delegation at international trade negotiations at the WTO, ACFTA, etc.
- He holds the Nigeria National Honors of the Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON) well as the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) of the Republic of Liberia. He is currently President, Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Nigeria.
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