Jimmy Adegoke

James O. Adegoke is a Nigerian-American climate scientist and Emeritus 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. In the United States, he has testified at the United States House of Representatives for the United States House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

He serves on the Technical Advisory Board of several United Nations (UN) applied science programs, including the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) project on the application of remote sensing for water resources and ecosystem management in Africa. At the invitation of the Nigerian Government, he served as Chair of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Agricultural Resilience in Nigeria (ACARN) which developed the National Agricultural Resilience Framework (NARF) for Nigeria in 2014. Prof. Adegoke is a distinguished member of the Advisory Board of NatureNews, Africa's foremost independent newspaper that is focused on Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Earth.

More recently, Professor Adegoke served as Senior Consultant at the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) Department of Climate Change and Green Growth while on leave from UMKC. He continues to work full-time with the AfDB following his recent retirement from UMKC. He maintains affiliation with UMKC as an appointed Emeritus Professor and member of the UMKC Emeritus College. Provided by Wikipedia