Pioneer and two-term Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive Officer of Kwara State University (2009 to 2019) and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Abuja (2019-2024), Professor Abdul-Rasheed Na’Allah, is a seasoned University administrator who had brought many innovations and new thinking to university education management in Nigeria. He attended several professional trainings on higher education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, took his PhD in comparative literature from the University of Alberta, Canada, and first two degrees in English and Literature-in-English from the University of Ilorin, Nigeria. He is a poet, playwright and scholar, and author of Africa Discourse (Routledge 2010), Africanity (Bayreuth series, 2009), Yoruba Oral Traditions (Routledge 2020), Omokewu, a community play (Kraft Books, 2020), Ilorin Fa (Bookcraft, 2022), among others. On sabbatical at the National Open University of Nigeria, he was appointed to a visiting scholar position as the Ama Ata Aidoo Fellow at the Northwestern University, Evanston, USA, from September 15, 2024 to December 31, 2024. Prof. Na’Allah was appointed to the IAU Administrative Board at the 16th IAU General Conference hosted by University College Dublin in 2022.