Tuesday, December 01, 2009


PATRICK OKEDINACHI UTOMI

DATE OF BIRTH; 6th of February 1956

A fellow of the Institute of Management of Consultants of Nigeria and founding Senior Faculty of the Lagos Business School-Pan African University, he was Director of The Center For Applied Economics at the Lagos Business School He has served in Senior positions in government, as an Adviser to the President of Nigeria; 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; Competitions 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. He was ADC Candidate for of the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the 2007 general elections and leader of the shadow cabinet of a rainbow coalition of political parties. Appointed Professor of the Social and Political Economy
Environment of Business and Entrepreneurship Teacher, he was been a scholar-in-residence at the Harvard Business School and the American University in Washington DC. As leader of Civil Society. He is the founder Center for Values in Leadership, an the Concerned Professionals, which was bulwark against-military oppression, among numerous other social enterprise initiatives. He has served on the key apex private sector association including the Lagos Chamber of commerce and Industry [LCCI]. The National Council of the Manufactures Association of Nigeria, and the Nigeria Employers Consultative Assembly [NECA] . His academic and Executive Education have taken place at the University of Nigeria, Nukka, Indian University, Bloomington in USA, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, The Harvard Business School. Nigeria’s foremost Public Intellectual and mush sought after he is a frequent speaker around the world and within Nigeria, He has been repeatedly appeared on CNN, The BCC in addition to being host of a syndicated television talk show. Patrick okeddinachi Utomi was a presidential aspirant for the DPA at the 2003 ad 2007 elections in Nigeria a member of new Nigeria forum.

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