Oluyemi Olawale Ogundele from IAEA wins Prosi excellence award

Vienna: Engineer Oluyemi Olawale OGUNDELE from the International Atomic Energy Agency will receive Prosi excellence award 2018 for his outstanding contributions in the society. He will be awarded during the two-day Prosi exotic festival.

The official inauguaration ceremony will take place tomorrow at 6pm during the PROSI Exotic Festival. The award will be handed over in the presence of many prominent people including Ambassadors, Diplomats and political leaders from Austria.The exotic festival which will be held on the street in front of Prosi Supermarket will host the venue for the award ceremony.

Mr. Ogundele is one of the main organisers of the Nigeria/African cultural carnival in Austria and a member of several professional institutes in Austria and abroad. Prominent among them are, British Institute of Engineers and Technicians, Austrian chamber of Engineers etc, he also has worked with Nigerian community in Austria by bearing different offices. He is also currently acting as the chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora organization Europe Austrian chapter.

The prestigious Nobel peace prize, in 2005, an award Mr. Ogundele received together with his colleagues at the International Atomic Energy Agency for their efforts to prevent Nuclear proliferation, the use of Nuclear Energy for military purposes and also to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way is one of the achievements in his career and he was also awarded Universal Peace Federation’s (Peace) “Ambassador” title too. He is a recipient of several awards at various occasions.

Mr. Ogundele, by profession a mechanical and multimedia engineer was born in Lagos, Nigeria. He attended Surulere Baptist School, Lagos and Baptist Boy’s High School, Abeokuta, Ogun state before proceeding to Europe to study Mechanical Engineering at the Higher Technological Institute, Vienna, Austria.

He started his career as a Technician with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), before joining the private sector, where he worked with Niedermeyer AG of Austria, as a quality control officer. After working eleven years in the private sector, he has joined the International Atomic Energy Agency as a Multimedia/Electronic Engineer till date.