Engr. Christopher Oluwakunmi Akinbile Ph.D
Engr. Christopher Oluwakunmi Akinbile Ph.D (Ibadan)
Department of Agricultural Engineering & Associate Director, Entrepreneurship Centre for Entrepreneurship and Gender Issues in Science and Technology (CEGIST), Federal University of Technology, Nigeria
Dr. Christopher Oluwakunmi Akinbile is senior lecturer in the department of Agricultural Engineering, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria (FUTA) and also the Associate Director, Entrepreneurship Programme, Centre for Entrepreneurship and Gender Issues in Science and Technology (CEGIST), FUTA. The Centre is saddled with the responsibility of ensuring skill acquisition and entrepreneurial advancement of staff, students and interested youth in the University community for development of small and medium scale enterprises. This is with a view to reducing unemployment, promoting the emergence of small enterprises and encouraging entrepreneurship development. He obtained his bachelor‟s degree in Agricultural
Engineering from FUTA, while his Master‟s and doctoral degrees were obtained from Agricultural and Environmental Engineering, University of Ibadan, all in Nigeria.
He is a member of many professional associations such as the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), registered member of Council for Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), Nigerian Institution of Agricultural Engineers (NIAE), American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) and Fellow of African Technology Policy Strategy Network (ATPS) based in Nairobi, Kenya. He has published over forty articles in international peer-reviewed journals and attended over 27 international conferences. He has won several awards and fellowships at various times. He won the award of outstanding presentation at the first African Regional Conference on Drainage (ARCOD) in Egypt in 2004, Our Common Future (OCF) fellow 2010 by Volkswagen Foundation, Germany for partaking in the global discourse in the „facing climate change‟ and Third World Academy of Science (TWAS) post doctoral fellowship at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) Penang, Malaysia from August, 2010 through September, 2011.
Dr. Akinbile also won the BiovisonNxt fellowship award for being among the 100 best young researchers globally which took place in Lyon, France in March, 2011 and was organized by the World Life Science Forum. He teaches several Agricultural Engineering courses such as Soil and Water Conservation Engineering, Rural Water Supply and Sanitation, Engineer in Society, Basic Hydrology, Irrigation and Drainage and Fluid Mechanics all at Undergraduate levels. At postgraduate levels, courses such as Advanced Hydraulics, Ground water supply, Advanced drainage and operational research. He has supervised several undergraduate and postgraduate project students and also member of supervisory team of some doctoral students at the department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) in Malaysia. Dr. Akinbile is married with children.