Dr. Ogechi Adeola is an Associate Professor of Marketing and the Head of Department of Operations, Marketing, and Information Systems at the Lagos Business School. She holds an MBA and DBA from Manchester Business School, UK, and a law degree from the University of Nigeria. She has over 25 years of work and consulting experience, which includes 14 years in the Nigerian financial services sector, before joining academia.

She has published 12 academic books and over 100 academic and practitioner articles, conference papers, and business and management case studies. She won Best Paper Awards at international conferences for four consecutive years (2016 – 2019).

Dr. Adeola is a series co-editor of the Palgrave Studies of Marketing in Emerging Economies; a Visiting International Fellow at the Open University Business School, Milton Keynes, UK (2016); a 2017 Paul R. Lawrence Fellow, USA, and Guest Lecturer at the University of Ghana Business School.

She has provided strategic marketing and brand management advisory services to numerous firms. She was a member of the Alpha Team of the Centre for Global Enterprise engaged as virtual consultants for the London Taxi Company, UK, in 2015 and Texas Capital Bank, USA, in 2018. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Strategic Management, Nigeria, a Fellow of the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria, and an Associate of the Gender, Entrepreneurship, and Social Policy Institute (GESPi), UK.