Prof. Adebowale “Ad” Akande is an international social theorist and a major figure in global politics and social science. He has an H-index of 143/23 and has been cited numerous times in various articles on SCOPUS. With over 37,533 Google Scholar citations, he is among the top two percent and above the 93.9th percentile of the world's most influential social scientists. His collaborative works have been reprinted in anthologies and the Financial Times-50 list. He has held faculty appointments at several international universities and received numerous awards, including the UK Commonwealth Academic Fellowship, IUPSYS International Award, Frank Andrew Award, University of Michigan, Sesquicentennial Prize St Xavier University, Chicago, Marquis Who's Who in the World, Taiwan Government International Scholar Fellowship, Nippon Foundation of Japan Fellowship, and Fellow Schloss Leopoldskron in Austria. He is also a co-recipient of the Annual SIOP's Scott Myers Award, Division 52'sUrsula Gielen Global Book Award, the Gordon W. Allport Prize (2005), and APA Global Award for his research on ambivalent sexism, leadership research projects, and Cross-Cultural Family, which are Scientific Citations Classics. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010 and currently serves as an international director for IR GLOBE in Vancouver and as a professor.
