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South- South Excellence, Dr. Obuks Ejohwomu

Dr. Obuks is the Director Commercial Project Management, Admissions Tutor, Management of Projects (MSc) Programmes, and Research Group PGR Lead in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Civil Engineering.

Nigerian professor Dr. Obuks is based in the prestigious University of Manchester. He hails from the Umiaghwa Abraka Kingdom in Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State and also son to HRM Luke Erede Ejohwomu, Adakaji 1 (JP) KSJI of blessed memory, Ovie of Abraka Kingdom (1994 – 2010).

Dr. Obuks is the Director Commercial Project Management, Admissions Tutor, Management of Projects (MSc) Programmes, and Research Group PGR Lead in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Civil Engineering. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy the Unit Lead for Commercial and Procurement.

Prior to joining MACE, he has worked as a contract manager on several building construction projects totalling over a N100m (Lukayson Ventures Ltd), a systems engineer in the telemetry and laboratory business area of Scottish Water, Glasgow, Research Assistant on a Black Country learning and skills action research project (University of Wolverhampton). Research Fellow on the EPSRC Health and Care Infrastructure Research and Innovation Centre (HaCIRIC), Programme Manager (W D Consults Ltd), Lecturer in Civil Engineering (Covenant University), Senior Lecturer in Project Management and Head, Department of Management Technology (Bells University of Technology).

Dr. Obuks Ejohwomu, has received international recognition over an article published in the prestigious International Journal of Management Science and Engineering Management. He won praises after helping helped Manchester City Council (MCC) coordinate and test thousands of pieces of Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) so that they could be delivered to key workers in the city.

In the past, he has consulted for the likes of Coffey International on DFID projects (Growth and Employment in States (GEMS)) in Nigeria, National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS), Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Staff Cooperative Multipurpose Society, and Pipelines and Products Marketing Company Limited (PPMC). He obtained his BEng degree in Civil Engineering from UNIBEN, MSc in Systems Engineering from Heriot-Watt, and Ph.D. in Construction Engineering and Management from Wolverhampton.

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