ADM is a Signatory to the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), Member of the UK Stakeholders for Sustainable Development (UKSSD), Affiliate Member of the International Association of Universities (IAU), Member European Alliance for Innovation (EAI), Strategic Partner, Danubius Academic Consortium (DAC) and Advisory Council Member/Associate of the Association of Universities of Asia and the Pacific (AUAP). He is very ardent and close Associate of the Association of African Universities (AAU).
Abdul is a sturdy campaigner for a more proactive and transparent United Nations, the advancement of the Bandung Principle of the 1955 Asia Africa Conference and the South Commission, led by late Elder Statesman Julius Mwalimu Nyerere, former President of Tanzania.
ADM’s most recent 2024 report to the UN Secretary-General António Guterres along with his proposal on measures required to rebuild the bricks of our fractured world, as proclaimed by the World Economic Forum in 2018, can be obtained from the UN official website link: Africa Asia Scholars Global Network (AASGON) – Communication on Engagement | UN Global Compact
As a Change maker, addressing the Global North –South Divide, the imbalance in our unfair world and advocating for Women empowerment, ADM was on the 19th of July 2018, officially received by the Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the UN Women at its UN Headquarters in New York.
International Consultant at Exquisite Solutions, London, UK, and Advisor International Business & Corporate Affairs BMC Advisors in India, ADM is the Co-Founder and Patron of the World Consortium of Universities (WCU), Member of the Research Advisory Board of the IBMRD Journal of Management & Research, and Senior Advisor IARS International Research Journal.
Initiator of the Global South Diaspora Summit Awards & Expo (GSD-SAE), Sino-African Diaspora Forum and Awards (SADFA), ADM in advancing inclusiveness, people centered policies and public private partnerships, initiated the Global South Summit of Trade Ministers, Entrepreneurs and the Academia (GOSSTMEA), the Global South Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (GOSCCIMA), Global South Anti-Corruption Academy (GOSACA), Global South Agriculture Ministers, Farmers and the Academia (GOSAMFA) and the Global South Food and Agriculture Research and Resource Centre for Sustainable Development (GSS-FARR-CSD) as well as the Global South Natural Resources Forum (GSNRF), Global South Natural Resources Promotion and Development Centre (GSNR-PDC), Global South Women Summit for Peace and Sustainable Development (GSWS-4PSD), and the Global South Women Centre for Peace and Sustainable Development (GSWC-4PSD).
Creating sustainable structures through transparent and proactive partnerships with stakeholders across in the developing countries, he’s currently advancing the formation of the Global South Bamboo & Rattan Association (GOSBRA), Global South Association of Engineers (GSAE) and the Global South Association of Architects (GSAA)
ADM, architect of the 1st World Film Music Arts Awards Festival (FIMAAFEST), is the President of the European Chapter of the International Society for Data Sciences and Innovation (ISDSI-Global), Member Advisory Board of Global Knowledge Alliance (GKA) in Australia and Distinguished Member of the HARPS Council for Integrated Management Systems.
Abdul, a member of Enterprise UK and the UK Associate Parliamentary Group for Looked after Children and Care Leavers (APG), was a founding Director of Medway Voice, initiator and promoter of Medway- Swale Small Business Leaders Forum (MSBLF), and Former President of Rotary Club International, District 9110, Iponri, including Africa’s foremost Children’s rights organization, the Child Welfare League of Nigeria (CWLN) and the African Coalition of Children’s Rights (ACCR).
Coordinator of the Global March against Child Labour in the West Coast of Africa, Abdul has received a number of awards and produced a number of publications, books, magazines and reports on the promotion of the rights and welfare of African children. For his alternative report on the Implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1996, visit www.crin.org/docs/resources/treaties/crc.13/Nigeria_CWL_NGO_Report.pdf
Appointed International Strategic Business and Marketing Consultant by the UN Head Office New York based World Energy Forum (WEF), in 2012, Abdul ‘Dewale Mohammed represented the United Kingdom, 10 countries in South East Asia and Africa for the conduct of the World Energy Forum in Dubai. Thereby the WEF 2012 Consultative Forum and Strategic Global Media Event he officially proposed was under his guidance, successfully organized by the Government of Dubai (UAE) on the 19th of July 2012 at the Armani Hotel, Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building.
A Children’s Rights Advocate and Social Entrepreneur well acknowledged by the UK government, ADM is the founder of the African Child Association (ACA), the African Children Strategic Alliance and the ACA Social Enterprise.
In 2005, he established a multi-purpose social enterprise centre in Westminster, the heart of the City of London. Beneficiaries of the humanitarian self-sustaining project included ex-offenders, refugees, lone parents and young people not in education, training or employment, and those with disabilities and mental health issues.
Allocated a section of a government school building in Lambeth Walk, Westminster, in early 2000 ADM operated an Adult/Youth Skills Training Centre on Plumbing, Electrical, Bricklaying, Plastering, Painting and Decorating, with the production of Household Bin Bags. He also took over five shops on Lambeth Walk to set up a Recruitment Centre/ICT Centre, a Money Exchange Hub, a Charity Shop, a Unisex Hair Salon and a Music Recording Studio.
On his proposal to organize the 1st World Summit for the African Child (WOSAC) in early 2000, ADM was a guest of the Nigerian First Lady who invited him from the UK to the Presidential Villa where he presented a beautiful portrait of the First Lady and further promised her the sum of N5 billion towards the establishment of an African Child Resource Development Centre in Abuja, Nigeria.
In 1996, ADM was commissioned by UNICEF to Launch the UNICEF Nigeria World Report and over a decade he worked in partnership with UNICEF and international organizations such as ILO, USAID, Africare and the UN NGO Children’s Rights Committee.
In the late eighties, he actively served on the board of the Civil Liberties Organization (CLO), Africa’s leading human rights group and in 1991, Abdul’s organization, the Child Welfare League of Nigeria (CWLN) worked in close partnership with UNICEF and later with Every Child Protected Against Trafficking (ECPAT UK), Antislavery International, UK Consortium for Street Children, the Railway Children, NSPCC and the London Criminal Justice Board. ADM under CWLN established an orphanage and rehabilitation center for the destitute, troubled disaffected youths, abused and the homeless in Lagos and Kaduna.
At the deprived Iyagbe Island in Ojo, Lagos State of Nigeria ADM established a health centre for the rural community, and in association with Sight Savers, England UK organized an annual ‘Free Eye and Dental Care Camp for Children and Families in the Northern part of Nigeria. This humane act received encomium from Nigeria’s First Lady.
In 1991, as Managing Director of De Dove Consortium Limited, Abdul initiated and successfully organized the first ever OAU (Now Africa Union) International Trade Fair which was also the first ever to be held in Abuja, as the new Capital City of Nigeria. Held in partnership with the Abuja Chamber of Commerce, with the opening remark presented by Abdul as Initiator and Chief Coordinator, the International Expo was declared open by the then Nigeria Head of State and Commander In Chief of the Armed Forces, President Babangida. With no fiscal investment on its part, the Abuja Chamber of Commerce raised substantial revenue through ADM’s strategic socio-economic initiative.
In his bold effort at advancing human capital and promote sustainable development toward ensuring that Northern Nigeria is not left behind in the growth of Nigeria, the world’s most populated black nation, Abdul established the ‘Arewa Industry, Business and Education Council (AIBEC), which in partnership with the New Nigeria Development Corporation (NNDC), the largest corporate body in Nigeria next to UAC. With Nigeria’s former Chief of Army Staff as Chairman, AIBEC was successfully launched in Kaduna on the 6th April 2000.
An accomplished global change maker, a humanist and philanthropist, ADM has five Trees planted in his honour in India – Chennai and Bhopal in 2016, Chandigarh in 2019, Nagpur April 2023 and Mumbai, May 2023.
ADM is blessed with a gorgeous and highly spirited wife, Wendy, and has four industrious children (three females and one male) as well as six amazing lovely grand-children (four girls and two boys).