Mr Udom Gabriel Emmanuel,
The Governor, Akwa Ibom State

Mr. Udom Emmanuel is the Governor of Akwa Ibom State since May 29, 2015, he is a technocrat and one of the bold new faces who came into the public square with verifiable body of work and high level of achievements and accomplishments. He takes delight in addressing himself as a “professional in politics” as opposed to a professional politician, and rightly so!

Until his successful foray into public service, Mr. Emmanuel was one of the definitional figures in Nigeria’s Financial Services Sector, where at Zenith – arguably one of the most successfully run banks in Nigeria nay Africa, he was the Executive Director with direct supervision on Foreign Subsidiaries, Corporate Strategy and Planning, Corporate Financial Advisory Services and Control, Business Development, International Investors’ Relations, Oil & Gas Sector, Infrastructure and Power Sector, Multilaterals, Conglomerates and Private Banking (MCP) as well as Telecommunications sector. He successfully executed these tasks bringing to bear his training and experience in Corporate Governance.

Governor Emmanuel graduated from the University of Lagos with a 2nd Class Upper Degree in Accounting and also holds a Master’s Degree in Corporate Governance from Leeds Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom, and this, makes him one of the few experts in that critical aspect of the Corporate Governance.He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA), Fellow of Institute of Financial Management, as well as Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (ACIT).