6) Ilesanmi Adesida
Ilesanmi Adesida (born 1949, Ifon, Ondo State, Nigeria) is a naturalized American physicist of Yoruba Nigerian descent.
He is the Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering, former Dean , College of Engineering , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; and since 2007, a member of the board of Fluor Corporation.
In May 2012, the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois selected Adesida to be the next vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost of the Urbana campus; a position he held from August 15, 2012 to August 31, 2015 when he was forced to resign.
Adesida retired from UIUC in 2016. On September 21, 2016, he was appointed Provost at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan.
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