Fourth Annual Conference and Meeting
London, England, United Kingdom
October 31 - November 02, 2003
Special Guest of Honour
Gamaliel
Onosode, one of Nigeria's most trusted names in the world of finance
and business, is the Special Guest of Honour at our Fourth Annual
Conference and Meeting, which will hold in London, England, October 31
- November 2, 2003. He has provided us with an abridged curriculum
vitae that is reproduced below. For other insights into this
distinguished business and religious Urhobo leader, see his self-reflections
on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
Peter P. Ekeh
Chair
Urhobo Historical Society
October 18, 2003
GAMALIEL O. ONOSODE
Born 22 May, 1933, Mr. G.
O. Onosode has chaired several private and
public
sector businesses and initiatives. He was Chairman & Chief
Executive of NAL
Bank Plc (1973-79) Other major
businesses and
initiatives that he has chaired include Dunlop Nigeria Plc (since
1984),
Cadbury Nigeria Plc (1977-93), Presidential Commission on Parastatals
(1981), Nigeria LNG Working Committee and Nigeria LNG Limited (1985-90)
and the
Niger Delta Environmental Survey (since 1995). Mr. Onosode
was Presidential Adviser on Budget Affairs and Director of Budget
(1983). He is
a Fellow of the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank, the
Nigerian
Institute of Management, of which he was President (1979-82). He is
also a
Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, having been elected to membership of its
Board of
Fellows in 1998.
In addition, Mr. Onosode
is immediate past and inaugural President of the Chartered Institute of
Stockbrokers, immediate past Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the
Governing
Council of the University of Uyo and
immediate past
and inaugural President & Chairman of Council of the Association of
Pension
Funds of Nigeria. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters and holds Honorary D.Sc.
degrees of Obafemi Awolowo University (1990), the University of Benin
(1995), and the Rivers State University of Science and Technology
(2003) as
well as Honorary D.D. degree of The Nigerian Baptist Theological
Seminary, Ogbomoso (2002).
Mr. Onosode
was
admitted to the Honour Roll of Mellanby
Hall, University of Ibadan,
in 1982. He is a pioneer recipient of the Ughelli
Descendants Union Distinguished Service Award (2000) and recipient of
the
Faculty of Arts University of Ibadan Golden Jubilee Distinguished
Alumnus Merit
Award (2001).
Mr. Gamaliel
Onosode was a Member of the inaugural
Provisional Governing
Council of Bowen University, Iwo. He is currently Chairman of the Delta
State
Think-Tank on Development, the Global Missions Board of the Nigerian
Baptist
Convention and the Governing Council of The Nigerian Baptist
Theological
Seminary, Ogbomoso.