Muritala Awodun is a business economist, entrepreneurship education, revenue and organizational management expert. He is a Professor of Business and Entrepreneurship, and a member of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms. Professor Awodun was Director of the Centre for Enterprise and Human Capital Development at Crown-Hill University (now Ojaja University), Eiyenkorin, Kwara State, Nigeria (2019 – 2023). He is serving on the Governing Council of Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria (since 2022).

Awodun served as Executive Chairman of the ‘reformed’ Kwara State Internal Revenue Service (2015 – 2019) and was the pioneer Dean of the School of Business and Governance at Kwara State University (2013–2015). He also was the pioneer Director of KWASU Centre for Entrepreneurship (2009–2013) and Head of Department of Business and Entrepreneurship (2009–2011). Prior to that, he lectured at the Lagos State University, Ojo (1999–2009) for almost a decade, after spending almost a decade in the private sector, at Guaranty Trust Bank and other financial and business institutions (between 1991-1999).

Professor Awodun consults for public, private and international institutions. He holds fellowship of several professional bodies and has authored several published journal articles, case studies, contributed chapters in books, co-authored and single-authored several books. Awodun has received many leadership and entrepreneurship awards, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Global Start-Up Workshop (GSW) African Scholar in Entrepreneurship Education (2013). He also attended the Harvard Business School (Executive Education) Certificate Program, Leading with Impact (2014) and several other professional education programs.

Awodun is Director in several private companies, and the Founder/Chief Executive of Fiftyfifty Institute Limited, an organization set up ‘to break new grounds in enterprise, job and value creation’. As part of his way of giving back to the society, he established Muritala Awodun Widows and Orphans Foundation (MAWOF), through which he has successfully sponsored several orphans through higher education, and assisted several widows to establish their businesses.