Patrick Utomi
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Patrick Utomi presidential candidate, political economist, management
lecturer
and entrepreneur
. He is an Igbo from the city of Igbuzo
. He is a presidential candidate for the Social Democratic Mega Party (SDMP) in the Nigerian April 2011 elections. He was the presidential candidate for the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in the Nigerian April 2007 elections
. He was a fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants of Nigeria and a Senior Faculty of the Lagos Business School
, Pan-African University, Lagos
, he is Director of The Centre For Applied Economics at the Lagos Business School. He has served in Senior positions in government, as an Adviser to the President of Nigeria. Patrick now serves as the Chairman of the Economic Commission for the Niger Delta; the Private Sector, as Chief Operating Officer for Volkswagen of Nigeria, and in academia. He is the author of several Management and Public Policy books including the Award Winning Managing Uncertainty: Competition and Strategy in Emerging Economies. His academic background covers a range from Policy Economics, Business Administration, and Political Science to Mass Communication. As an entrepreneur he has founded or co-founded companies that are active in fields including financial services, ICT, and media.
Born February 6, 1956, Utomi is a fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants of Nigeria and was a Senior Faculty of the Lagos Business School
as Director of the Centre for Applied Economics.
1982Indiana University (Bloomington) IN, USAPh.D. MPA, MA1973 - 1977University of Nigeria, Nsukka BA1968 - 1971Loyola College, Ibadan, NigeriaWest African School Certificate.1967-68Christ The King’s College, Onitsha.
POLICY ASSIGNMENTS:
Select participant at the Biannual Conference of the Aspen Institute, France (Europe-Africa summit)
Chairman, Presidential Panel for developing a National Integrity System
Chairman, Presidential Panel for Restructuring Agencies of Integrity and Transparency for the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Served as Secretary and later as Acting Chairman, Economic Advisory Team for candidate Olusegun Obasanjo in the run-up to the 1999 Presidential election.
Served on the Governance Committee of the transition council of President-elect Olusegun Obasanjo, PPRAC
Chaired the Privatization Committee - Governor- Elect of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu's transition working group.
• Serves on the Privatization Consultative Council for Lagos State.
Served in USAID team designing and implementing training intervention for elected officials in Nigeria in 1999.
Served on Advisory Committee to Review JAMB (1999)
Serves as Member, Delta State Think Tank on Development.
Serves on the Steering Committee of the National Council on Privatization for Competition and antitrust
Serves on the National Council on Privatization Steering committee for Pensions Reform.
Serves on the ministerial advisory committee on WTO and Trade Policy.
RESEARCH, TEACHING, CONSULTING ACTIVITIES AND PUBLICATIONS:
Consultant on Strategy for Fountain Trust Merchant Bank.
Consultant to Citizens International Bank on Managing Change and Organizational Transformation. (1995 - 1997)
Consultant to the African Development Bank on Corporate Communications Strategy (1986 - 90)
Consultant to Cadbury Nigeria Plc.
Consultant to Nigeria Ports Authority on Engineering Change.
Consultant to National Maritime Authority on Organizational Effectiveness in the Public Sector.
Frequently quoted in the International Media including The Economist, CNN, Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor.
Teaching Seminars in Executive Programs and the MBA Program on Government -Business Relations (Social Political Environment of Business, SPEB); Business Policy; Change Management and Entrepreneurship.
Chairman, Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria Committee on Restructuring the Catholic Secretariat and reviewing its mission. (First lay person appointed to chair a Committee of Bishops of the CBCN).
CASES WRITTEN AND PUBLISHED IN THE LAGOS BUSINESS SCHOOL CASE SERIES:
The Soft Drinks Battle Ground - Managing Growth at 7Up
Nigeria: The Dilemma of a Private Sector.
The Volkswagen of Nigeria Case (A) (B) and (C)
Flour Mills of Nigeria after the Wheat Ban-Coping with Policy Shocks.
Is Steel Stillborn?
Finland - Nigeria Insurance Company
FSB International Bank
The Delta Steel Company
Guaranty Trust Bank: Winning Against the Currents
Owena Bank
From Marketing Boards to Helena Farms
Ownership, Prebendalism, the Rise, Fall and Rebirth of IMB
Pfizer Nigeria Plc
UNT Nig. Plc, etc.
LISTINGS AND HONORS: Great (Nigerian) Lives of the 20th Century; Nigeria Who is who;
Africa who is who; who is who in Nigerian Business etc.
Vanguard Newspaper Nominated Entrepreneur of the year 1999.
Voted by Several Chapters of the Jaycees as young person of the year in 1987.
Named ‘Economic Guru of Our Time’ by the Student Union of the Yaba
College of Technology on 13 July 1999.
Named Societal Role Model in pioneer awards by the Nigerian Tribune in 2001
Named ALOHA (A Lion of High Achievement) by the University of Nigeria
Alumni Association in 1992.
Loyola Old Boys Association National Merit Award Winner 1998.
Honored with Distinguished Alumnus Award and Alumni Ambassador by the
Senate of the University Of Nigeria.
Delivered the 40th anniversary lecture of the University of Nigeria.
Inducted to the Junior Achievement Business Hall of Fame in Nigeria in Dec 2001
Management
Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...
lecturer
Lecturer
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and entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
. He is an Igbo from the city of Igbuzo
Igbuzo
Ibusa also Igbuzo is a town in Delta State, South-South, Nigeria with an estimated population of 566,310 people in 2009. The people speak Enuani dialect of Igbo language family. The name of the community is more commonly and officially known and written as Ibusa...
. He is a presidential candidate for the Social Democratic Mega Party (SDMP) in the Nigerian April 2011 elections. He was the presidential candidate for the African Democratic Congress (ADC) in the Nigerian April 2007 elections
Nigerian general election, 2007
The Nigerian general elections of 2007 were held on 14 April and 21 April 2007. Governorship and state assembly elections were held on 14 April, while the presidential and national assembly elections were held a week later on 21 April. Umaru Yar'Adua won the highly controversial election for the...
. He was a fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants of Nigeria and a Senior Faculty of the Lagos Business School
Lagos Business School
Lagos Business School is the graduate business school of the Pan-African University, Lagos, Nigeria. LBS is located in Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria...
, Pan-African University, Lagos
Pan-African University, Lagos
The Pan-African University, Lagos is a private, non-profit educational institution in Lagos, Nigeria.The university had its origin as the Lagos Business School , established in 1991...
, he is Director of The Centre For Applied Economics at the Lagos Business School. He has served in Senior positions in government, as an Adviser to the President of Nigeria. Patrick now serves as the Chairman of the Economic Commission for the Niger Delta; the Private Sector, as Chief Operating Officer for Volkswagen of Nigeria, and in academia. He is the author of several Management and Public Policy books including the Award Winning Managing Uncertainty: Competition and Strategy in Emerging Economies. His academic background covers a range from Policy Economics, Business Administration, and Political Science to Mass Communication. As an entrepreneur he has founded or co-founded companies that are active in fields including financial services, ICT, and media.
Born February 6, 1956, Utomi is a fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants of Nigeria and was a Senior Faculty of the Lagos Business School
Lagos Business School
Lagos Business School is the graduate business school of the Pan-African University, Lagos, Nigeria. LBS is located in Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria...
as Director of the Centre for Applied Economics.
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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:1982Indiana University (Bloomington) IN, USAPh.D. MPA, MA1973 - 1977University of Nigeria, Nsukka BA1968 - 1971Loyola College, Ibadan, NigeriaWest African School Certificate.1967-68Christ The King’s College, Onitsha.
POLICY ASSIGNMENTS:
Select participant at the Biannual Conference of the Aspen Institute, France (Europe-Africa summit)
Chairman, Presidential Panel for developing a National Integrity System
Chairman, Presidential Panel for Restructuring Agencies of Integrity and Transparency for the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Served as Secretary and later as Acting Chairman, Economic Advisory Team for candidate Olusegun Obasanjo in the run-up to the 1999 Presidential election.
Served on the Governance Committee of the transition council of President-elect Olusegun Obasanjo, PPRAC
Chaired the Privatization Committee - Governor- Elect of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu's transition working group.
• Serves on the Privatization Consultative Council for Lagos State.
Served in USAID team designing and implementing training intervention for elected officials in Nigeria in 1999.
Served on Advisory Committee to Review JAMB (1999)
Serves as Member, Delta State Think Tank on Development.
Serves on the Steering Committee of the National Council on Privatization for Competition and antitrust
Serves on the National Council on Privatization Steering committee for Pensions Reform.
Serves on the ministerial advisory committee on WTO and Trade Policy.
RESEARCH, TEACHING, CONSULTING ACTIVITIES AND PUBLICATIONS:
Consultant on Strategy for Fountain Trust Merchant Bank.
Consultant to Citizens International Bank on Managing Change and Organizational Transformation. (1995 - 1997)
Consultant to the African Development Bank on Corporate Communications Strategy (1986 - 90)
Consultant to Cadbury Nigeria Plc.
Consultant to Nigeria Ports Authority on Engineering Change.
Consultant to National Maritime Authority on Organizational Effectiveness in the Public Sector.
Frequently quoted in the International Media including The Economist, CNN, Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor.
Teaching Seminars in Executive Programs and the MBA Program on Government -Business Relations (Social Political Environment of Business, SPEB); Business Policy; Change Management and Entrepreneurship.
Chairman, Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria Committee on Restructuring the Catholic Secretariat and reviewing its mission. (First lay person appointed to chair a Committee of Bishops of the CBCN).
CASES WRITTEN AND PUBLISHED IN THE LAGOS BUSINESS SCHOOL CASE SERIES:
The Soft Drinks Battle Ground - Managing Growth at 7Up
Nigeria: The Dilemma of a Private Sector.
The Volkswagen of Nigeria Case (A) (B) and (C)
Flour Mills of Nigeria after the Wheat Ban-Coping with Policy Shocks.
Is Steel Stillborn?
Finland - Nigeria Insurance Company
FSB International Bank
The Delta Steel Company
Guaranty Trust Bank: Winning Against the Currents
Owena Bank
From Marketing Boards to Helena Farms
Ownership, Prebendalism, the Rise, Fall and Rebirth of IMB
Pfizer Nigeria Plc
UNT Nig. Plc, etc.
LISTINGS AND HONORS: Great (Nigerian) Lives of the 20th Century; Nigeria Who is who;
Africa who is who; who is who in Nigerian Business etc.
Vanguard Newspaper Nominated Entrepreneur of the year 1999.
Voted by Several Chapters of the Jaycees as young person of the year in 1987.
Named ‘Economic Guru of Our Time’ by the Student Union of the Yaba
College of Technology on 13 July 1999.
Named Societal Role Model in pioneer awards by the Nigerian Tribune in 2001
Named ALOHA (A Lion of High Achievement) by the University of Nigeria
Alumni Association in 1992.
Loyola Old Boys Association National Merit Award Winner 1998.
Honored with Distinguished Alumnus Award and Alumni Ambassador by the
Senate of the University Of Nigeria.
Delivered the 40th anniversary lecture of the University of Nigeria.
Inducted to the Junior Achievement Business Hall of Fame in Nigeria in Dec 2001