Kehinde Oluwatoyin Ladipo is a Nigerian

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. He is a

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of the

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, elected into the Academy's Fellowship at its Annual General Meeting held in January 2015.

Biography

Ladipo spent over fifteen years working at Shell Nigeria. After retiring from Shell, Ladipo helped set up a postgraduate school of geoscience at the University of Benin.

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