Dr. Moses Amadasun

Dr. Moses Amadasun has progressed through all levels of the engineering profession—technician, technologist, engineer, teacher, and researcher. He began as a technician-in-training in 1974 with Nigeria’s Posts & Telecommunications (P&T) Department, later becoming a technologist in Microwave Radio Transmission Systems. After earning a First Class Honours degree in Electronics/Electrical Engineering from the University of Ife (1982), he worked as Area Engineer in Akure before shifting to academia at Bendel State University (now Ambrose Alli University) in 1984. He then completed a Ph.D. at Imperial College, London (1988), specializing in Digital Image Processing and Pattern Recognition with applications in remote sensing, robotics, and biomedical engineering.

Returning to Nigeria in 1992, Dr. Amadasun joined Elf Petroleum (now Total Energies), where he led the BIZNET satellite project and later managed telecoms, bandwidth expansion, and industry-wide OPTS initiatives. From 2006 to 2014, he developed TEPNG’s IPP project, retiring as General Manager, IPP Business. He has published influential papers, including a 2005 OWA conference paper that inspired Nigeria’s FOTON project, and a 2013 NIEEE inaugural lecture now a key reference on Nigeria’s electricity industry. He serves as Chairman of the Board of the International Center for Energy (ICE) West Africa, and is a member of NSE, Fellow of NIEEE, and Fellow of MDCIN. He is married with four children.