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TOP MARITIME WOMEN IN NIGERIA 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. Ships & Ports | 54