Danladi Slim Matawal (born 30 October 1955) is a Nigerian distinguished Professor of (Civil engineering); a former Director-General & CEO, Nigerian Building & Road Research Institute (NBRRI), an agency of the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology.
He attended Government College, Keffi, Nasarawa State where he obtained the West African School Certificate (WASC) in 1968.
[6] He joined the services of Plateau State Polytechnic as a director of works in 1983 but left the Plateau State Polytechnic in 1987 to join the services of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Bauchi as a Lecturer II in the Department of Civil Engineering where he was later appointed a professor in 1999.
In 2000, he was appointed as Director of Centre for Distance Learning Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University for four years, a tenure that ended in 2004.
[citation needed] In 2011, he was appointed as Director-General and chief executive officer of the Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute (NBRRI), an agency under Federal Ministry of Science and Technology.