Dr Babatunde Ajibade is a dispute resolution specialist, and the managing partner of SPA Ajibade & Co; Nigeria.

Babatunde has substantial expertise as counsel in international commercial arbitration, especially in the fields of company law, energy law, hospitality law and investment treaty law. Babatunde also sits as an arbitrator and is currently a Vice-President of the ICC Arbitration Commission Steering Committee.

He was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1989 and obtained a PhD in 1996. He was elevated to the rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria in 2007 and became a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators UK in 2015.