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Ugo
Madubuike
U
go Madubuike is the General Manager,
Monitoring & Regulatory Services, Nigerian
Ports Authority (NPA). She joined the Nigerian
Ports Authority in April, 1996 as a Manager in the Audit
Department of the Lagos Port Complex, and has worked
in TinCan Island Port, Port Harcourt Port, Eastern Ports
and Western Ports headquarters from where she later
became the General Manager, Audit from 2009 to 2013.
Between 2013 and Sept. 2016, she moved from Audit to
become the General Manager, Business Development
and Joint Ventures, and in 2016, she moved to Special
D u t i e s wh e re s h e re l a t e d w i t h i n t e r n a t i o n a l
organizations and ports on behalf of NPA.
Presently she serves as the General Manager,
Monitoring and Regulatory Services where she
coordinates and monitors compliance and regulatory
activities of the Authority's concessionaires.
Ugo is a Fellow of the Certified Institute of
Cost Management, a Fellow of the Institute
of Chartered Management Auditors,
Fellow of the Institute of Chartered
Management Accountants, and a certified
Public Private Partnership Specialist of the
Institute of Public Private Partnerships,
Washington.
Presently she serves as the
G en er al M an ager,
Monitoring and Regulatory
Services where she
coordinates and monitors
compliance and regulatory
activities of the Authority's
concessionaires.
Ugo hails from Item in Bende Local Government Area of
Abia State. She started her basic education in London in
the early 70s, had her Secondary School education
in Lagos and graduated from Ahmadu Bello
University, Zaria in 1987 with a Bachelor's
degree in Microbiology.
After her National Youth Service Corp
program at the Niger ian National
Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in 1988,
she proceeded to acquire an MBA at the
Rivers State University of Science and
Technology, after which she began her
working career at Leading Edge
Investment Co. Victoria Island, Lagos
and rose to become the Head of
Treasury.
She has attended many training and
professional courses both within and
outside Nigeria including, Regulatory
Impact Analysis (RIA): Principles of
Regulation Institute for Public Private
Partnerships Washington, DC.; Changing the
Game: Negotiation and Competitive Decision
Making, Harvard Business School, Boston,
Massachusetts; Managing a Concessioned Port,
Landlord Port Model, Apec/Flanders Training Institute,
Port of Antwerp, Belgium andStrategic Financial
Planning, Crown Agents, Surrey, UK etc.
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