Professor Akindele Folarin Alonge is the immediate Past President of International Commission of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineers (CIGR) and a Fellow of the International Academy of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineers (FIAABE). CIGR which was founded in 1930, is the umbrella body of the Society of Agricultural Engineers worldwide. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering of Nigeria (FAEng). He is a Fellow of the Solar Energy Society of Nigeria (FSESN). He is the current Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Uyo, Uyo in Akwa Ibom State. He became a corporate member of Nigerian Society of Agricultural Engineers (NSAE) in 1989 now called Nigerian Institution of Agricultural Engineers (NIAE). He has served as the National Financial Secretary, National Auditor, and Regional Chairman of NIAE, South-South. He is the current National Chairman of NIAE. The position will be occupied till October 2023. He is a life member and he has been a Fellow of NIAE since 2011. For his several roles, international engagements and outstanding leadership, he was given the highest award of CIGR as the Honourary President (a lifetime recognition) of CIGR at the 20th World Congress of CIGR in Kyoto, Japan in December 2022.
He is a registered member of many other international professional bodies. This includes the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), Canadian Society of BioEngineering (CSBE) since 2007, International Society for Food, Agriculture and Environment (ISFAE), Finland. International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS), Belgium, International Soil Tillage Research Organisation (ISTRO and International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM). He is a foundation member of the Pan African Society for Agricultural Engineering (PASAE) and registration number M001. He served as the pioneering Vice President and Secretary of the African Network Group of ASABE and later the President of that Group.. He was nominated in November 2022 as a full member of the Club of Bologna. Club of Bologna was established as a free association of leading personalities on agricultural mechanization and development of agricultural machinery sector from 31 countries of the world. He was appointed in April 2023 as the 101th member and the only Nigerian and the 3rd African in the prestigious group.
He holds a Bachelors and Masters in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Ibadan in 1987 and 1989 respectively. He also holds a Ph.D from University of Ilorin in Agricultural Engineering in 2005 with special interest in Solar drying and by extension renewable energy and climate change. Other areas of his research are engineering properties of biological materials, oil extraction from oil seeds, storage of agricultural produce, and development of crop processing machines. His current research includes production and packaging of Zobo tea, Food Safety and quality and Artificial Intelligence applications. He attended several academic and professional certificate courses in USA. Netherlands, Italy, China, Canada to enhance his erudition, competence, and capabilities in teaching, research, and community services
He has published over 140 articles both locally and internationally and presented over 40 invited papers. He was one of the top 600 profiles ranking of scientists in Nigerian Institutions according to Google Scholar Citations (GSC), second edition March 2015 (http://www.webometrics.info/en/node/99) as well as the third and fourth editions of Oct 2015 and 2016 respectively. He has attended and presented papers in over sixty (60) local conferences and over fitty (50) international conferences. His extension work has taken him to almost all the states in Nigeria, some West Africa states, South Africa, USA, Canada, France, Australia, Netherlands, Japan, Germany, Sweden, UAE, Oman and several other nations of the world for conferences, training, workshops, fellowship and visits.
He won the Graduate Engineer of the year 1989 of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Ibadan as well as Sahara Engineers’ Best Paper in Mechanical Engineering as well as Pa William overall best paper in Engineering. He has been a Corporate member of NSE since 1995. He has served and still serving in several committees of NSE. He started his career as a youth corp member in the Department of Agricultural Engineering, University of Ilorin in September 1987, returned as an Assistant Lecturer in January 1991 and rose through the ranks to Senior Lecturer in 2006. He transferred his service to become an Associate Professor in University of Uyo in 2008 and a Professor in 2011.
He is a registered Engineer with the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) with registration number R.9305 since 2002. He is a 19-year member of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE). He has served in several committees of ASABE He was one of the founding members of the African Network Group of ASABE and later became the President of the Group for three years. He has been a foundation member of the Pan African Society of Agricultural Engineering (PASAE - AfroAgEng). He was a founding member, Secretary, and the Past President of the African Network Group of ASABE. He has been an active member of the planning and organizing committee of the Alliance for Modernizing Africa Agric-Food System (AMAA) since the commencement of this ASABE Global initiative for Africa in 2019.

He was named as one of the 500 Nigerian Distinguished Patriots of all time (1960-2020) in the publication titled Nigerian Hall of Fame by Academy of Achievers Maiden Edition in 2020 (See Details). Prof Alonge won several other awards.