The Vice-Chancellor of the National Open University of Nigeria is Professor Olufemi Ayinde Peters, a Professor of Chemistry with emphasis on degradation and stabilization of polymers. He was schooled at the University of Ibadan, the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria and at the Victoria University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology, United Kingdom. He has over 40 years of post-graduate experience in teaching, research, administration and management of higher education in general and in Open, Distance and e-Learning (ODeL) in particular. His work experience spans career roles at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, (ABU), Nigeria; at the National Open University of Nigeria, including as visiting Professor to the Department of Chemistry, University of Lagos, Lagos and a five year tenured appointment at the National level as the Executive Director and Chief Executive at the Nigerian Stored Products Research Institute (NSPRI), Ilorin, Nigeria. These roles have enabled him to demonstrate excellent scholarships in the fields of chemistry, polymer science and technology, agriculture and as well as in open and distance learning fields. He is a Fellow of the distinguished Chemical Society of Nigeria (CSN), and a member of other professional bodies: The Polymer Institute of Nigeria (PIN); the African Council for Distance Education (ACDE); Materials Science & Technology Society of Nigeria (MSN), and the Institute of Public Analyst of Nigeria (IPAN). He had once served as a member of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (2007). He is widely travelled.