By Balogun Kamilu Lekan
Biography
Patrick Okedinachi Utomi, popularly called Pat Utomi, is a political economy and management expert and a professor at Lagos Business School.
Pat, a native of Oshimili North Local Government, Delta State, was born in Kaduna on February 6, 1956.
He is the founder of the Centre for Value in Leadership (CVL) and the political party, African Democratic Congress.
Professor Pat Utomi has served in various capacities both in the public and private sectors.
He is a former presidential candidate and a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants of Nigeria.
Education
Pat attended St. Thomas, Kano and Our Lady of Fatima, Gusau before proceeding to Christ the King College, Onitsha for part of his secondary education before completing it at Loyola College, Ibadan at age 15.
He headed to the Federal School of Arts and Science before enrolling for tertiary education at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka where he bagged a degree in Mass Communication.
After graduating from the University of Nigeria, he headed to Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, where he got his PhD. MPA, and MA.
In addition, Pat has been a scholar-in-residence at the Harvard Business School and the American University in Washington, D.C
Career
Within a few months of his return to Nigeria from Bloomington, Indiana, United States, Pat got enlisted by the former vice-president Alex Ekwueme to provide consultancy services on some public policy papers.
Later, former president Shehu Shagari appointed him as Special Assistant a position he maintained until the 1983 coup which truncated the Second Republic.
After the end of the Second Republic, Pat worked with Utomapp Holdings Limited as the chairman/chief executive officer and later with Volkswagen Nigeria Lagos as assistant general manager, corporate affairs
Pat has also served in various other capacities, which include Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), Poise Nigeria Limited, Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA), and the National Council of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria,
In 2003, Pat was appointed the professor of Social and Political Economy Environment of Business and Entrepreneurship at Lagos Business School
Utomi has also served as the vice-chairman, Platinum–Habib Bank
Pat has also had some attempts to assume political office after his first sojourn, but to no success.
In 2011, he made a failed attempt at the position of President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Later in 2019, he was declared the Delta State governorship aspirant of the All Progressive Congress. The national working committee of the All Progressive Congress overturned the declaration and declared Chief Great Ogboru as its candidate.
In 2022, he stepped down for Peter Obi to emerge as the presidential aspirant of the Labor Party
Marriage
Professor Pat is married to Dr Ifeoma, a Consultant Orthodontist at LUTH.
Their number of children has not been disclosed to the public.
Net worth
Pat Utomi’s net worth is reportedly estimated at $150,000. However, this cannot be independently verified at the moment
Achievement
In 1996, Utomi was a scholar-in-residence at American University in Washington, DC, and a research associate at Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts.
Utomi is also a member of a number of professional organisations. He is a member of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, IOD, Nigeria Economic Summit Group, and Nigeria Economic Society.
He also collaborated with other stakeholders to establish Transparency in Nigeria, the Centre for Values in Leadership, the Concerned Professionals, and the Restoration Group.
Pat has had the privilege of speaking on various platforms about policy formation, growth economics, comparative development, and leadership.
Honours and awards
Nigeria’s top ten Living Legends in the Vanguard/Silverbird Television Awards.
Great Nigeria Lives of the 20th Century;
Who is who in Africa Award
Selected Publications
- Utomi P., Nigeria as an Economic Power House, Can it be Achieved in Robert P Rothberg (ed) Crafting the New Nigeria – Confronting the Challenges. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, Co. 2004 pg 125 – 138
- Utomi P. Nigeria “Changes as Prospects” in the Africa Competitiveness Report (ed) Jeffrey Sachs, World Economic Forum 2000
- Utomi P, Performance under Constraints. The Nigeria Press Under Military Rule. Gazette Vol 28 1982
- Utomi P, Historical – Philosophical Foundations of Government Ownership of Newspapers in Nigeria. Gazette vol 27 no 1 1981
- Utomi P, Values and Economic Stagnation in Africa: A Paradox of Poverty in Nigeria. The International Journal of African Studies Vol. 3.2. Spring 2004
- Utomi P, Managing Uncertainty: Competition and Strategy in Emerging Economies. Ibadan. Spectrum Books 1998
- Utomi P, To Serve is to Live. Ibadan. Spectrum Books, 1999
- Utomi, Patrick Okedinachi. To Serve is to Live: Autobiographical Reflections on the Nigerian Condition. Spectrum Books Limited, 2002.
- Utomi P, Critical Perspectives in Political Economy and Management, Ibadan. Spectrum Books, 2000
- Utomi P, Why Nations are Poor, Lagos. Business Day Books 2006
- Utomi P, Business Angel as a Missionary, London. Makeway Press, 2010
- Utomi P, Conscience: Opinions in the Struggle for Nation Building, Lagos Patike Book 1999
- Utomi P, Perspectives: Further Thoughts in the Quest for National Rebirth Patike Books, 2000.
- Edited Volumes of Interview with Pat Utomi. Golden Thoughts compiled by Godfrey Obioma Intec Press 2004.
- In the words of Pat Utomi edited by Uju Onyechere, Lagos. Benson Edwards Publications, 2003
- Pat Utomi: A Purpose driven life: Interviews of Pat Utomi by Godfrey Obioma
- The Duty to Lead: An article by Pat Utomi
- Contributor to 40 First Job: A book by Ukinebo Dare
- The Art of Leading: Open Secrets of Leadership Effectiveness. CVL/Makeway Press, 2015
- Utomi, Patrick Okedinachi. Golden Thoughts: Creative Views and Writings of Professor Pat Utomi on the Nigerian Economy, Politics and Social System. Godfrey Obioma, 2004.
Pat has also been privileged to be keynote speaker in the following annual conferences
- Nigerian Institute of Management
- Nigeria Institute of Quantity Surveyors
- Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria
- Nigeria Institute of Public Relations
- Nigeria Institute of Marketing
- Law Society, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife
He has also been a guest speaker for
- Business Club meetings of the Africa Business Club at the Harvard Business School,
- Wharton, Kellogg School
- TedxEuston at the University of London.
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