Engr. Dr. Emmanuel Audu-Ohwavborua (FNSE, PMP) is a public administrator, a certified Project Manager (PMP), an entrepreneur with an interest in agriculture, and a Fellow of the Nigeria Society of Engineers (FNSE). He is currently the acting Managing Director/CEO at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), a public sector organization established by law in 2000 to address the developmental deficits of the impoverished oil-bearing Niger Delta Region of Nigeria.
With degrees in electrical engineering and business administration, as well as professional certification in Project Management, an award in March 2019 of Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) with a specialization in Project Management by the Commonwealth University (CUB), he has had over 30 years experience working in diverse sectors ranging from engineering designs, industrial and production management, through power plant engineering to project management. About one-third of these years, he invested in the private sector having worked in Dresser Kellogg Energy Services Limited, Granherne Limited (United Kingdom), and Bonny Allied Industries Limited (Rock Cement). He also worked at the now-defunct National Electric Power Authority (NEPA), and the National Engineering and Technical Company (NETCO), a subsidiary of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
A fast-growing entrepreneur, he is the Chairman of Emmppek Farms Limited, a privately owned commercial agricultural enterprise (with a specialty in both animal and crop production), located in the South-South of Nigeria. He successfully completed the Master Class Certificate in Business Management & Leadership in March 2019 at the London Graduate School. In May 2015, he successfully completed a programme on “Business Model Innovations” at the Cambridge Judge Business School, Cambridge University. He also successfully completed a certificate programme on Negotiation at the Harvard Law School, Boston, USA in 2012.
He is the author of the recently released book (August 2020), “REAL ENEMIES OF THE NIGER DELTA”. A book that captures the plight of a people and a land so blessed, yet beleaguered, impoverished, and generally taken for granted. It examines some historical, social-political, and economic challenges the hydrocarbon-rich Niger Delta faces, and makes a prescription for not only its transformation but also how the NDDC can catalyze the envisaged transformative process.