Father Anselm Adodo is a member of the Benedictine order of the Catholic Church. He was ordained a priest in 1997. He is the founder and Director of Nigeria's foremost herbal research institute, the Pax Herbal Clinic and Research Laboratories, popularly called Pax Herbals. He is a prominent advocate of African Herbal medicine research, indigenous knowledge systems, rural community development, health policy reform and transformation of education in Africa. Anselm's approach to research is transdisciplinary and multidisciplinary and this reflects in his publications. He is an adjunct visiting lecturer at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, where he teaches African Transformation studies and Traditional African Medicine. He is an Adjunct Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Nigeria, a Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Botanists and a Senior Fellow at Trans4m centre for Integral Development, France.
