Adesina, who previously served as Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, attended the Compact with Africa Conference with the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, in Berlin, Germany.
World Trade Organisation DG, Nkozi Okonjo Iweala, and IMF MD, Kristalina Georgieva, were also present at the event and they were pictured taking turns to put Akin Adesina’s bow tie in order.
Adesina shared the photos and wrote: ‘My two wonderful sisters ?@NOIweala? Director General of the World Trade Organization and ?@KGeorgieva? Managing Director of the IMF, making sure there is “bow-tie stabilization”! It is all part of global financial market stabilization.’
Adesina was born to a Nigerian farmer in Ibadan, Oyo State. He attended a village school and graduated with a Bachelors in Agricultural Economics with First Class Honors from the University of Ife, Nigeria (1981), where he was the first student to be awarded this distinction by the university.