Afolakemi Olasumbo Oredein is a professor in the faculty of education at Lead City University, Ibadan, Nigeria, and is currently the provost of the postgraduate college. Prof. Oredein is the First female Head of the Department of Educational Management, Faculty of Arts & Education, Lead City University (2011-2017), Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Education (2015-2018) and Provost, Postgraduate College (2022 till date). Her area of specialization is Educational Management (Leadership) and Statistics. She is a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (FCIPM), The Institute of Management Consultants (FIMC-Nigeria) and the Global Education Network (FGEN). Also, she is a member of the following organizations: Nigeria Academy of Education (NAE), Kappa Delta Pi (KDP), Higher Education Research & Policy Network (HERPNET), World Education Research Association (WERA), Nigerian Association of Educational and Planning and Administration (NAEAP). Prof. Oredein is the editor-in-chief of some journals, such as the African Higher Education Review (AHER), an online international journal, and the Journal of Capital Development in Behavioural Sciences (JOCADEBS). She has supervised more than 10 PhD and 15 Master Students. She has organized and is still organizing different academic conferences, seminars and trainings. Professor Afolakemi Olasumbo Oredein is an outstanding educator, an insightful scholar and a prolific author whose research interests span numerous aspects of Educational Management, particularly leadership and gender. Her research works have appeared in a variety of national and international publications. She has published, widely attended, and presented papers at local and international academic conferences. She presented her Inaugural Lecture on ‘Good Leadership for National Development: The Inevitable Fraternal Twins and Irresistible Skills as Matters Arising’ in September 2016. She is from Ogun State, Nigeria; born over six decades ago; married to Rev’d Canon OpeOluwa Oredein and blessed with children.