Ilesanmi Adesida [SEP] place of birth
Ilesanmi Adesida
Ilesanmi Adesida (born 1949, Ifon, Ondo State, Nigeria) is a naturalized American physicist of Yoruba Nigerian descent. He has been the provost at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan, from September 2016.
Adesida is also the Donald Biggar Willett Professor Emeritus of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; he retired from Illinois in 2016. 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
Ilesanmi
Ilesanmi is both a surname and a given name of Yoruba origin. It may refer to:
Surname:
- Femi Ilesanmi (born 1991), English professional footballer
Given name:
- Ilesanmi Adesida (born 1949), American physicist