Kehinde Olufunso Ogunjobi

Country Representative - Ghana / Regional Representative for West and Central Africa

Kehinde Olufunso Ogunjobi is a seasoned climate scientist and development leader with over 20 years of experience in applied research, policy and capacity building across West and Central Africa. Before joining IWMI, he served as the deputy and research director of the the West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) Competence Center. At WASCAL, Ogunjobi led interdisciplinary programs on climate science, water management, renewable energy and sustainable development.

Ogunjobi began his academic career at Nigeria’s Federal University of Technology Akure, where he led the Meteorology and Climate Science Department and the West African Climate Systems Graduate Programme, training over 600 scientists and advancing gender inclusion. He established regional platforms for hydroclimatic data and drove collaborations with universities, governments and international partners. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed papers in hydroclimatic modelling, climate adaptation, renewable energy and data-driven resilience.

Ogunjobi holds a Doctor of philosophy in Environmental science and engineering from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea, and is a fellow of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.