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About Carnegie Corporation
Omotade
“Tade” Akin Aina
Program Director, Higher Education in Africa
As
Program Director, Higher Education in Africa, Omotade “Tade”
Akin Aina develops and implements the Corporation’s strategy
to accelerate economic and social development in Africa by strengthening
teaching, research, scholarship and leadership. Working in South
Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana and Nigeria, Carnegie Corporation
is investing in initiatives including regional networks of scholars,
fellowships to cultivate and harness individual skills in the sciences
and humanities, while also building on the Corporation’s decade-long
institutional support for universities and libraries.
Tade
is an experienced foundation executive, whose decade-long tenure
in the Ford Foundation’s Nairobi office, most recently as
Regional Representative for East Africa, has been marked by innovation
and visionary leadership.
Tade
Aina studied sociology at the University of Lagos and the London
School of Economics and obtained his doctorate from the University
of Sussex. Aina was a professor at the University of Lagos, lecturing
on urban poverty, governance and development. At Lagos, where he
combined research with activism, Tade was one of the founders of
the Nigerian Environmental Study Team and the Lagos Group for the
Study of Human Settlements, publishing widely on these and related
issues.
Tade
joined Ford Foundation in 1998, coming from the Dakar-based Council
for Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA),
where he was the Deputy Executive Secretary. In Ford’s Nairobi
office, Tade developed a portfolio in Governance and Civil Society
that has focused on the strengthening of the values and institutions
of participatory democratic governance.
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