Professor Adelegan is the Secretary-General of the International Rubber Study Group (IRSG). He is a C-Suite Executive and an international development expert, a Professor of Practice of Environmental Science and Engineering and a practitioner-scholar in management with over three decades of distinguished professional trajectory across 24 African Countries, Europe, North America, and Asia. He has extensive experience in the sustainable investment, disruptive innovation, and circular economy of elastomeric products. He has held Senior Roles at the United Nations as the Team Leader at the United Nations Technology Innovation Lab, the first European Lab in Finland and as a Senior Advisor at the United Nations Office of Project Services in Denmark.
 

Professor Adelegan was the division chief at the Office of the Vice President of the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development, an international development financial institution established by the ECOWAS Treaty covering 15 ECOWAS countries. He represented Africa and the Middle East at the Climate Investment Trust Fund at the World Bank, Washington DC, United States. His portfolios have included programs and projects funded by the European Union, World Bank, Green Climate Fund, Climate Investment Fund, African Development Bank, ECOWAS, African Union, NEPAD Agency, Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO), Australian Aid, several United Nations agencies, and funds among others.
 

Professor Adelegan is a recipient of several global awards, including the 2006 Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland; recognition in 2007 as an Inventor Social Entrepreneur and Ashoka-Lemelson Fellow by the Ashoka Innovators for the Public and the Lemelson Foundation based in the United States; Technology Pioneer of the World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland; Technology Award Laureate and Prize Recipient of the Technology Museum of Innovation, San Jose, California, United States, etc. and many more. Professor Adelegan has Doctorate Degrees in Business Administration from the Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States and Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Nigerian Premier University of Ibadan.