Olorunfemi Tosin Adetona
Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Home country: Nigeria

My Bachelors degree, for which I wrote a thesis on industrial and domestic waste management, was done in Industrial Chemistry at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. I also earned a Masters degree in Geographic Information Systems (MGIS) from the same university and graduated as one of the best three students in my class. I worked on the vulnerability of Northeastern Nigeria to desertification for the MGIS project, creating a vulnerability index map in the process, and did a seminar paper on waste management within the Ibadan metropolis during the program. I have worked as a Chemistry teacher, and a Guidance/Counselor. I supervised outsourced jobs as part of my duties as a Facilities Management Executive at the British American Tobacco Ibadan factory. My duties included pest management, horticulture and landscaping and, waste disposal. I was a member of the factory’s internal audit committee for ISO 9000 2001 certification and played a part in ensuring that the factory was certified within six months of initiating the plan. I also participated in many internal Environmental Health and Safety audits as an auditor. I had been exposed to, and become interested in waste management and environmental health issues through my education and career; hence my pursuit of a Masters degree in Environmental Management with a focus on water resource and pollution. I am currently a Frankel Scholar at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. In addition to the Compton Foundation Fellowship, I have received scholarship from the Ivanhoe Foundation for my degree program at Yale University.