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WebTV's Market Review segment dedicated to #Coronanomics will be
featuring a robust conversation on 'Financing Nigeria's Way Through COVID
19-Restructuring A New Economy'.
Guest: Professor Pat Utomi
Date: Monday, April 27, 2020
Time: 9.00am
Platform: Livestream on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram
Topic: Financing Nigeria's
Way Through COVID 19-Restructuring A New Economy
Highlights: Available later in the day
with link to full video.
Host: Ottoabasi
Abasiekong, Editor, WebTV
Co-Host: Boason
Omofaye, Guest Analyst and CEO Frontier Africa Reports
Guest Profile:
PROFESSOR PAT UTOMI is the Founder/CEO of Centre for Values in Leadership (CVL).
A fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants of Nigeria and
founding Senior Faculty of the Lagos Business School -Pan African University,
he was 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; 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, 1998 and the 2006 book Why
Nations are Poor. 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, Media and Agriculture.
Appointed Professor of the Social and Political Economy
Environment of Business, the pioneer Entrepreneurship teacher at LBS has 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 of the Centre for Values in Leadership; The Widow
Support Centre and the Concerned Professionals, which was bulwark
against-military oppression, among numerous other social enterprise initiatives.
He has served on the key apex private sector associations,
including the Lagos Chamber of Commerce, The National Council of the
Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, and the Nigerian Employers Consultative
Association (NECA). He is active on the
International speaking circuit, especially on the subjects of Growth Economics,
Comparative Development Economics, Leadership, the Curse of Oil and China's
Economic surge and growing influence in Africa.
He has collaborated fairly frequently with the center for
strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington and Chatham House in
the UK. He has also written commissioned
papers for the UK's DFID including the latest collaboration with Colleagues
from Oxford on the Political Economy of growth in Nigeria. He is a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins
School of Advance International Studies (SAIS).
He has studied and written about the Political economy of growth
in Latin America and Asia, particularly Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore,
India and Hong Kong, countries in which he is much traveled.
Utomi who was voted one of the top 10 Nigerian Living Legends in
the Vanguard Newspaper/Silver Bird Television poll in 2009.
A multitasker, he has reached the top in several different
endeavours, becoming one of Nigeria’s top managers in Manufacturing before his
33rd birthday, reaching a Presidential Advisory position at 27; earning two
Master Degrees and a PhD at 26, a Professorship and global acknowledgement as a
leading scholar in Business, Political Economy and Media Studies in his
forties. His first publication in a
refereed international journal appeared in 1981 in a European Journal, Gazette. He is perhaps the first candidate for
President in Nigeria to be formally endorsed by such renowned scholars as the
Nobel Laureate Prof Wole Soyinka and Prof Sam Aluko among others.
Honored by so many Professional bodies as a distinguished fellow
(including Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, the Institute of Directors
(Nigeria) Institute of Strategic Management, Academy of Entrepreneurship
Studies, and inducted into the Junior Achievement (Nigeria) Hall of Fame; and
by the Senate of the University of Nigeria and Alumni of UNN ( ALOHA - A Lion
of High Achievement) with a collection of more than 700 plaques that mark a
life of service. He has been awarded the Hon.Doctor of Business Administration
(DBA Honoris Causa) by the University of Nigeria in 2012.
As a Business Angel he has helped found such companies as
Linkserve (Nigeria's first ISP), Socketworks (Pioneer e-government systems
developer in Nigeria, and Business Day (Nigeria's first daily business
newspaper) He created the iconic LBS monthly executive briefing breakfast and
hosted it for its first 10 years, and inspired the founding of the Centre for
Entrepreneurship Studies of LBS (now EDC) after a 1996 visit to the Sole C
Snyder Centre at Wharton, in Philadelphia.
His other books include Critical Perspectives in Political Economy and
Management; To Serve is to Live; Business Angel as a Missionary and four other
books that are collections of his published opinions. He has written dozens of chapters in edited
volumes. Conversations with him have also been published in books of interviews
with Utomi.
He has passionately pursued the building of a viable opposition
political party in Nigeria and transparent, accountable government.
He was candidate for President of Nigeria in 2007 and 2011.
He is a man of faith and family who is widely traveled through all
the continents of the world. He has
visited more than eighty countries.
You can follow him on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. He can be contacted via email at
putomi@cvl.com.ng
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