TOP MARITIME WOMEN IN NIGERIA
Carol Ufere
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a ro l A k u m U f e re i s c u r re n t ly a n
Independent Maritime Consultant and
L i c e n s e d
H u m a n
Relationspractitioner.She worked in the Nigerian
Ports Authority (NPA) for many years and retired
in 2018. Bef ore her retirement from the
organization, she held the positions of General
Manager Servicom and General Manager
Superannuation & Investments. She was also a
Po r t M a n a ge r wh e re s h e d e m o n s t ra t e d
excellence in port administration and
terminal operations. Between 2015
–2016, she was the General
Manager, Special Duties.
Carol was also NPA's
Coordinator for the
International
M a r i t i m e
Associations on
behalf of Nigeria.
T h e s e
Associations
i n c l u d e
International
Association of
Ports &Harbours
(IAPH), Pan African
Por t Cooperation
( PA P C ) a n d P o r t
M a n a g e m e n t
Association of West and
Central African (PMAWCA.
For three years (2004 -2007),
she was Personal Assistant (Human
Resources) to the Managing Director. In
this position, she played active roles in the port
reforms process as a member of numerous
sensitive committees critical to the reform
process.
She is well versed in building capacity in the field
of human resources, personnel management,
service delivery, monitoring and evaluation
procedures and pension fund administration for
large governmental organizations.
Since 2015, she has been working for the United
Nations as Instr uctor in Train For Trade
Programme. She is the President and Co-founder,
Committee of Friends for Humanity
(COFFHA), a non-governmental
organization (NGO) founded
as far back as 1993.
C O F F H A i s a n
organization that is
m a d e u p o f
accomplished
women of integrity
in business and
o t h e r re l a t e d
professions, with
a mission to
s u p p o r t ,
encourage and
u p l i f t l e s s
privileged women
and children in our
society.
Carol holds a Master's
degree in Public
Administration of the
University of Lagos. She
obtained her first degree BA (Hons),
History from the University of Benin in 1984.
She attended Queen of Holy Rosary College,
Onitsha where she obtained her West African
School Certificate (WASC) in 1975.
She has attended the HBS-NIM Leaders Program
Carol is a maritime practitioner with over three
of the Harvard Business School, and holds a
d e c ades of global
certificate. She also
experience of
Carol is a maritime practitioner with h o l d s a T ra n s p o r t
operations and
over three decades of global Certificate of the
administration in
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sector, during which she administration in maritime and port sector, Holland as well as
has led multicultural and during which she has led multicultural and Certificate in Strategic
multilingual teams multilingual teams across Africa, building P u b l i c R e l a t i o n s ,
across Africa, building a
P ro t o c o l & T r a v e l
strong professional a strong professional network.
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network.
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