Adetokunbo O Denloye was born on June13, 1951 in Dublin, Ireland. He had his secondary school education at Igbobi College, Yaba, graduating in December 1966. He was at the International School, Ibadan for his A level studies between 1967 and 1968. Thereafter he enrolled at the University of Lagos for a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He however secured a Western Region of Nigeria Scholarship to study Chemical Engineering and therefore moved to the University of Birmingham in England graduating with a First Class Honours degree in Chemical Engineering in 1972. He stayed on at Birmingham for his PhD programme graduating with a PhD degree in Chemical Engineering in 1976 specialising in fluidisation He thereafter joined the University of Ife for a brief period (1976 -1977) before moving to the University of Lagos in September 1977 as Lecturer II. He rose through the ranks and was appointed a Professor in Chemical Engineering in 1998. In 1996, he was appointed as the pioneer Head of Department of the Chemical and Polymer engineering at the Lagos State University where he was responsible for curriculum development. Between 1992 and 1993, he was also been a visiting Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Petroleum Engineering, Covenant University, Ota between February 2010 and January 2011. Between 2001 and 2008, Prof Denloye was the Managing Director of Unilag Consult. This provided him an extensive experience in project management, project engineering and engineering assessment. He is a registered professional chemical engineer ( Nigeria and UK), a chartered scientist (UK), with special expertise in project management, project engineering and technological evaluations. He is a Fellow of both the Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers as well as the Nigerian Society of Engineers. He has been involved in a number of projects in conjunction with agencies such as the World bank and UNDP. He has consulted extensively for many organisations and industrial concerns. Prof Denloye has travelled extensively and has attended a large number of conferences, seminars and symposia. He has led a number of training workshops and has published extensively in the areas of Fluidisation and Heat Transfer. His command of the English language is excellent and he speaks and writes Yoruba well.
BSc Chemical Engineering, 1972 University of Birmingham, UK