Professor Elegido is currently Professor of Professional Ethics at the University. He has served as Vice-Chancellor of the University (2010-2021) and Dean of the Lagos Business School, the University’s graduate business school (2005-2009).
He was born in Madrid (Spain) in 1952. He has a licentiate degree in Law from the Universidad Central de Madrid (Spain) and a doctorate in Law from the Universidad de Navarra (Spain). He was one of the founding staff members of Lagos Business School in 1991.
Professor Elegido is the author of seven books: Jurisprudence (1994), Fundamentals of Business Ethics (1996), Una Comunidad de Servicio – Ensayos en Etica de la Empresa (2000), Business Ethics in the Christian Tradition (2003), The Nature of Human Beings (2018), Introduction to Ethics (2020) and Issues in Media Ethics (2022). He has also published numerous law and business ethics articles in academic and professional journals. For several years, he has been listed among the top 10% most highly cited scholars worldwide in the Social Science Research Network. His main area of research is the ethics of pricing.
He has served as director or chairman in several commercial and non-commercial organisations. He is also a member of the editorial board of two academic journals and the Advisory Council of the Global Business School Network. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, a Fellow of the Society for Corporate Governance Nigeria and a Fellow of the International Academy of Management.