Jimmy Adegoke

He had held research and teaching appointments at the Federal University of Technology Minna in Nigeria, Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado and the Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. From 2010 to 2012 he served as the Executive Director of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Natural Resources & Environment (NRE) Division, in Pretoria, South Africa where he had concurrent appointment as Director of the Applied Center for Climate & Earth Systems Science (ACCESS), a Center of Excellence (CoE) of the South Africa Department of Science and Technology (DST) Global Change Grande Challenge (GCGC) program. More recently, he completed a consultancy stint in 2017 (April to December) as Interim Executive Director of the West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL). Before that, he served for two years on WASCAL's Governing Board and as Chair of the organization's Scientific Advisory Committee

James O. Adegoke (born 1963) is an award-winning climate scientist and professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) where he served as Chair of the Department of Geosciences (2008-2010). He also served as an appointee of the Mayor of Kansas City Missouri on the city's Environmental Management Commission (EMC) and has testified before the South Africa Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Science and Technology and the Climate Change Committee of the Nigerian House of Representatives.