Adenola Adegbesan

Runner Up Thought Leader of the Year

Prince Adenola Adegbesan has spent the past year building a body of work that speaks for itself, in published research, international press, and repeat invitations to some of the UK's biggest business stages. His SSRN paper, Visionaries Under Fire: Elon Musk's Transformative Leadership Journey from Adversity to Impact, has been downloaded over 2,800 times and viewed more than 21,500 times, earning a place on SSRN's Top Downloads list for the Leadership sub-topic. A second paper explores how AI is reshaping executive decision making. He is also the author of The Legal Lifeline of Global Businesses in the Post-Pandemic Era, an Amazon bestseller published in six languages.

He is an Executive Contributor at Brainz Magazine, read by over 300,000 people a week across more than 65 countries, where his articles cover AI governance failures including the Builder.ai collapse and the risks of ungoverned autonomous agents. He has been presented with the Brainz 500 Global Award and the CREA Global Award.

He has returned for consecutive years to the Milton Keynes B2B Growth Expo, one of the UK's longest-running business events, backed by names including Virgin and Barclays and drawing over 240 exhibitors and 5,000 attendees. His speaking engagements also span BEKKMAAF Global Networks, HSBC's UK innovation programming, the She Empowers Summit, and the Institute of Tomorrow's leadership series.

He is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.