Ifedayo Akintunde

Robert Ifedayo Akintunde (born 2 November 1935) is a Nigerian engineer, a distinguished Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), and former President of the society. He was the first African to win the WFEO Medal of Engineering Excellence after doing so in 2017. Akintunde is also a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Civil Engineers (UK), and a Chartered Engineer of the U.K. since 1965. He was registered by Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria in 1974.

Career

Akintunde began his career in the United Kingdom with some engineering consulting firms before taking up an appointment with the then-Western State Ministry of Works and Transport. Afterward, he obtained a second Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering before returning to handle some World Bank Assisted Road projects in Western Nigeria.

He founded the firm Profen Consultants Inc. in 1976, of which he is the Chief Executive to date. As a senior engineer in the Highways Division of Western Region Ministry of Works and Transport 1962 – 74, as Chief Engineer with a frontline Roads and Bridges contractor 1974 – 76, and also as Chief Executive of his civil engineering consulting firm 1976 – present, Akintunde has been involved in the designing and construction of many highways, bridges, and water supplies.

He is the former Vice President of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) 1991-2003, an umbrella international engineering organization. He was recently a winner of the Ibadan Anglican Diocese 2007 Merit Award and the Patron of a Zonal Christian Association of Nigeria. In recognition of Akintunde's contributions, the headquarter office and auditorium buildings in the Nigerian Society of Engineers Ibadan would be named after him. published by Vintage Publishers (Int’l) Ltd., 1994, and Nigerian Construction Industry, Past, Present, Problems, and Prospects, printed by Ibadan University Printery, 2003.

Awards and honors Akintunde was inducted into Nigeria’s Construction Industry Hall of Fame, in 2017.

In 2018, The Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Oluyole Branch, held the maiden edition of the Ifedayo Akintunde Engineering Lecture at the Felicia Hall, JOGOR Centre, Ibadan.

Akintunde is quoted in at least four World "Who's Whos".