An expert in the formulation and implementation of economic policies, a lawyer and an administrator with over twenty seven years experience in the public service, Mr. Adesoji (“Soji”) Adesugba is currently the Technical Assistant to the Nigerian Minister of Labor and Productivity. At the Ministry of Labor and Productivity, Soji is assisting the Minister in reforming and repositioning the ministry especially as it relates to issues of productivity, employment, arbitration and social security.   Soji is a director at the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) in Abuja, where he has worked for over ten years. At the NIPC, Soji was responsible for developing investment strategies for targeting and promoting investments into the Nigerian economy. At the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), the privatization agency of the Federal Government of Nigeria, he was involved in the formulation of economic policies including pension administration reforms and the marketing of State Owned Enterprises slated for privatization. Soji was the Pioneer head of Investment Promotion at the NIPC. He developed the Nigerian South East Asia Investment Promotion Strategy at the NIPC in 2000 which invariably contributed to the tremendous increase in the inflow of Asian investments into the Nigerian economy.

Soji worked as the Chairman of various NIPC account teams and was head of the team that promoted the inflow of over $2 billion Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from China into the Nigerian economy between 2007 and 2008 he feat for which he was given commendations by the NIPC management. He is an associate of the well known Switzerland based organization, Direct Investment Advisory Services (DIAS) where he acts as a resource person on investment promotion and economic development. An advocate of a good investment climate in Nigeria, Soji is currently working with some State Governments in the setting up of State Investment Promotion Agencies. He is a co founder of the National Association of Investment Promotion Agencies in Nigeria and also a co founder of the Switzerland based International Institute of Investment Promotion.. An erudite speaker, Soji has for over ten years represented Nigeria at various international forums, promoting the country as a preferred investment destination.

Soji has a B.Sc. degree in Business Administration, an LL.B degree in Law both from the University of Lagos (Nigeria); and an MBA from the Ogun State University. He is an alumnus of the World Bank Institute and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research.  He is an Associate Member of the Chartered Taxation Institute of Nigeria (ACTI), a member of the National Marketing Institute of Nigeria and the Nigerian Institute of Management.  He studied Chinese Economic Development at the Normal University in Beijing, China in 2001. Soji recently was among the first set of four people in the world to have completed the postgraduate coursework in investment promotion as a graduate student of the Edinburgh Napier University Business School, Scotland for the award of an M.Sc. in Investment Promotion and Economic Development and he is currently researching on the “infrastructure development in Nigeria, a strategy for improving the investment climate”

Prior to joining the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission, Adesoji Adesugba had worked at the Nigeria Customs Service as a General Duty Officer from 1982-.1999. An expert in Customs tariff administration, Soji worked in various capacities while at the Nigerian Customs, he worked as an excise duty officer, a revenue officer, an enforcement officer and a legal duty officer.

Adesoji has strong managerial and leadership skills, he demonstrates flexibility in leadership by performing and/or overseeing the analysis of complex human resources, financial or administrative management policy. He has a proven record of building and managing teams and creating an enabling environment, including the ability to identify key strategic issues and deliver on expected outcomes. An expert change agent, in 2005 Soji was seconded to the Bureau of Public Enterprises to assist in reinvigorating the Communication and Marketing Unit of that organization. This was a period when the privatization programme of the Federal Government needed a boost. As the Head of the Communications, Marketing and External Relations at the BPE, Soji helped in the successful marketing and privatization of over 86 public enterprises valued at over $3 billion. He was recalled to the NIPC to reengineer the Investment Promotion department in January 2007. At the NIPC, Soji introduced the Public Private Partnership Promotion Programme (P5), an Investment Promotion strategy he designed to partner with the private sector to improve in the promotion of the country to foreign and local investors. This programme has been deemed highly successful and has been commended by many investment promotion practitioners all over the world.