Dr Adetunji Adegbesan

Dr Adetunji Adegbesan (Tunji Adegbesan) is the Founder & Group CEO of Gidi Mobile, creators of gidimo, the developing world’s leading personal mastery & learning-for-livelihoods platform (www.gidimo.com).

Tunji has a First Class Honours degree in Electronic Engineering and a PhD in Strategic Management from the IESE Business School. He is globally respected as one of Africa’s top scholars of competitive strategy, as well as one of the leading experts on the mobile telecommunications industry. A recipient of multiple awards, he has been invited to speak at knowledge events in more than 20 countries across four continents.

Prior to founding Gidi Mobile, he was Director of the Centre for Competitiveness & Strategy at the Lagos Business School (LBS) where he led sessions on Competitive Strategy, as well as on issues arising out of the intersection of Strategy, Technology, and Innovation. During his 14 years in LBS, his consulting experience spanned the software, telecommunications, banking, oil and gas, publishing, logistics, identity management, and electronic payments sectors; while prior to LBS, his work experience spanning software development, consulting, information systems management, and electrical engineering, in both manufacturing and service sectors.

Tunji is a technology startup mentor for Google for Startups Accelerator, as well as for the Founder Institute. He is a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Academy of Management Review, the world’s leading conceptual journal in the field of strategic management, a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of BusinessDay Newspapers (West Africa’s premier business periodical), and a peer reviewer for several of the world’s top strategy research journals. He is a past member of the Executive Committee of the Strategy Division of the global Academy of Management, as well as a past Global Representative for Africa of the Division. He has also been a Representative-at-Large for the Competitive Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society, and a member of the Research and Strategic Planning Committee of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria. He is a past Visiting Scholar & Associate Researcher at the Centre for Globalisation and Strategy at the IESE Business School in Barcelona. An amateur historian, philosopher, and student of culture and geopolitical affairs, Tunji has native fluency in English and Spanish, and basic literacy in French, Yoruba, and Catalan.