THE LEADERSHIP

Chairman

Chairman and CEO, Geometric Power Limited
Former Minister of Power and former Minister of Science and Technology
Former Alcoa Foundation endowed Professor of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
Founding Director, US Center of Excellence in e-Design
Former Professor of Engineering and Robotics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

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Former Inspector General of the Nigerian Police (IGP)
Former Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA)
Former Commissioner of Police for Ogun State

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Former United Nations Military Adviser for Peacekeeping Operations
Former General Officer Commanding, Second Mechanized Division
Former Force Commander of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) appointed in January 2006
Former Commander, Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) Artillery Brigade in Liberia (1996 and 1997)
Was the ECOMOG Chief Coordinator of the Liberian elections in July 1997
Former Chief of Administration of the Nigerian Army, in charge of the welfare, discipline and medical services for all Nigerian military personnel

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Former General Officer Commanding (GOC) 81 Division Nigerian Army
Commanding Officer 72 Airborne Battalion
Commander Army Task Group (Operation RESTORE HOPE)
Commander 4 Brigade
Former Directing Staff in Command and Staff College and National Defence College
Two tours of active service in ECOMOG Operations

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Former United Nations Assistant Secretary General
Former Regional Director for Africa at the International Labor Organization (ILO)
Founder/CEO of Other Half Empowerment Initiative (OH)
Former Project Coordinator for development projects at the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank
Former Chief of Social Development and Cultural Statistics in the Ministry of Social Development, Youth and Sports of Nigeria

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Orthopedic Surgeon
Co-founder and Chairman of SEPLAT Petroleum Development Company Plc, an independent indigenous Nigerian upstream exploration and production company with a focus on Nigeria

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Former Nigerian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Ireland with concurrent accreditation to the Republic of Iceland
Former Nigerian High Commissioner to the Republic of Kenya with concurrent accreditation to the Seychelles

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Executive Vice President, Center for Policy and Foreign Engagement, a foreign policy think tank
Former Information Commissioner in Abia State
Former Senior Special Adviser to former FCT Minister
Member of the Board of Trustees (BOT), Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library

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Retired Director, Federal Ministry of Water Resources with extensive experience in Dams, irrigation, water quality, and trans-boundary water management

Secretary

Professor of Environmental Toxicology/Chemistry and Microbiology
Professor and Head, Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Nile University of Nigeria, Abuja
Retired officer in the US Army
Former Bureau Chief of Laboratory, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, USA