Prof Bolanle Wahab

Waheed Bolanle Wahab is a professor and former Acting Head in the department of urban and regional planning.  He is also the Pioneer Coordinator of the postgraduate program in indigenous knowledge and development at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. He holds a diploma in town and regional planning from The Polytechnic in Ibadan, Master of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy in urban design from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. 

He is a fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners and the Oyo State Representative in the Town Planners Registration Council of Nigeria. He is a member of the Association of African Planning Schools (AAPS) and a member of the Capacity Building and Education Committee of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology. He was the Chairman of the Oyo State Task Force on Sustainable Flood Prevention and Management that assessed the causes and impacts of the 2011 flood disaster in Ibadan. 

He has taught at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls (1996), Iowa State University, Ames (1997), and in five tertiary institutions in Nigeria since 1985. He was a consultant to UNDP, UNICEF, the Urban Management Programme, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UN-Habitat funded Sustainable Ibadan Project (1996-2018), and the World Bank on urbanization in Nigeria. He was the Local Project Coordinator for Oyo State and InWent Capacity Building International of Germany on municipal solid waste management in Ibadan (2007-2009). His research interests include settlement planning and development, community environmental planning and management, integrated waste management, climate change and disaster risk management, and indigenous knowledge systems.