Celebrate Dr. Babafemi Badejo on His birthday

Dr. Babafemi Badejo (born 4 March 1955) is a Nigerian political scientist, author, publisher and lawyer.

He was born on March 4, 1955 in Ijebu-Ode, a town of about 222,653 (2007) people in Ogun State, Nigeria. He is husband to his wife, Mrs. Jumoke Badejo and a father of three daughters (Adeyinka, Tokunbo and Bidemi) and a son (Adebolanle). Badejo, prior to his current role as Head of Political Affairs.

Brief Information About

Dr. Babafemi Badejo

He has extensive experience in academics at the University of California, Los Angeles and University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria. He trained many successful former students holding major national and international posts as well as undertook research that resulted in several publications, including a best seller analytical book on politics in Kenya.

For almost two and a half decades, he served the United Nations in Somalia, Kenya, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau and Sudan as Chief of Staff of complex UN Peace Operations; Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General at the UN Political Office for Somalia and Head of Political Affairs in many UN Missions. These responsibilities saw him give major advisory support to the United Nations on the pursuit of peace through dialogue in many mediation efforts and reconciliation conferences in many countries as well as support post-conflict peacebuilding in Liberia and Guinea-Bissau.

Babafemi Badejo has a Ph.D in Political Science (with a field work and dissertation on Pakistan), from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1982 and a Bachelors in Law from the University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria in January 1990 and became an Attorney in December 1990 after attending the Nigerian Law School.

Babafemi Badejo, a citizen of the world wrote his PhD thesis on Pakistan and lived/traveled widely in the world. He speaks four languages.