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Number 84 on the 2025 list
Akinwumi Adesina is a president from Nigeria, named to the AFN 100 in 2025 for completing ten years leading the African Development Bank and winning AFIA's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Dr Akinwumi Adesina completed his second five-year term as President of the African Development Bank on 30 August 2025, handing over to Sidi Ould Tah after ten years at the head of the continent's development lender. In 2025 AFN's own AFIA awards gave him their Lifetime Achievement Award, honouring two decades of work on Africa's food security and agricultural progress.