Isa Olalekan Elegbede

Dr. Isa Olalekan Elegbede (Ph.D.) has a doctorate in Environmental science, specializing in ocean and coastal resources sustainability. He is an academic who lectures at the fisheries department, Lagos State University, Lagos, Nigeria. Before now, He lectured on marine sustainability at the Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU), Germany. He is also a co-chair of the GEO BON blue planet fisheries working group, Deputy chair of the IUCN/CEESP/TGER, Switzerland, and a Fellow of the Future Earth Coast (FEC). He is also a Central and South Atlantic Regional Scientific Research Working Group member, coordinating regional deep-sea research. Also a member of the fisheries - DOSI - Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative.
Likewise, he was the head of research, innovations, and development at SaeioGlobal (SGL), where he managed and implemented various projects from NSF, USA, European Union, and GIZ, Germany.
He has a wealth of interdisciplinary background and experiences in citizen sciences and data hackathons. Thanks to his resilience and hard-working attitude- he obtained a BSc in Fisheries at the Lagos State University, Nigeria, an MSc in Marine Sciences at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, and also an MSc in Environmental and resource management at the Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU), Germany with several international professional training and certifications. He was a visiting fellow and Scholar of the Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI) and the Robin Rigby Trust (RRT) at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, where he has contributed to teaching, research, and capacity-building activities within the university. He has committed to knowledge dissemination in Africa as a diaspora expert under the german governmental agency, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, and the German Federal Employment Agency. Several awards and grants have been awarded to his credit. Isa has participated, contributed, and volunteered in several international capacities and collaborative initiatives in many SGDs goals across the globe. He is an alumnus of the graduate programs in oceanography at the Sao Paulo School of Advanced Sciences, Brazil, and an honorary member of the Indigenous and community conserved area (ICCAs), Switzerland.