Olukunle Ojeleye (PhD) is a management consultant, a sessional professor, a freelance journalist and an author. He received his PhD in War Studies and his Master of Arts degree in International Peace and Security from Kings College, London. His Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in International Relations was obtained from the University of Ife (now known as Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
Kunle began a working career in 1988 at the defunct Standard Newspapers, Jos, Nigeria, where he created and maintained a weekly foreign affairs feature page.
He subsequently worked in the United Kingdom for over 15 years, the last 8 years in senior management positions with responsibilities for local government, social housing and urban regeneration projects, policies and procedures.
Kunle has spent the last twelve years in Canada as a consultant on business process improvements, change and project management. One of his projects is a national platform for Canadian institutions and their students to exchange documents and transcripts in real time with other global institutions.
Kunle has simultaneously kept engagement in the academic/research community as a scholar with a published book as well as peer-reviewed book chapters and academic papers. He has taught as a sessional professor in African History/African Studies at the University of Calgary.
In his spare time, Kunle engages in community development and mentoring the younger generation. In 2021, he was a member of a 7-man committee that fashioned a 25-year development plan for his hometown.
Until he stepped down in December 2022, Kunle was also the Vice President of Operations for i-Scholar Initiative, a US-based Not-For-Profit Organisation. The organisation funds and mentors aspiring Nigerian graduates to successfully write required graduate school admission standardised tests whilst helping them to access fully funded scholarships in world-class foreign universities. Kunle was responsible for the annual application review and selection process running annually from January till May. To maintain the transparency and integrity of the process, he implemented information technology systems that have helped the organisation cope with the deluge of applications from 43 in 2019 to 1450 in 2022. The result has been over $14 million worth of fully funded graduate admissions to the organisation’s scholarship and mentorship beneficiaries.
