Lagos Private Varsity Appoints Prof. Austin Nosike As Vice Chancellor

James Hope University, Lekki, Lagos, has appointed renowned economist and absorption scholar, Prof. Austin Nosike, arsenic its caller Vice-Chancellor.

The appointment, announced by the university’s Board of Trustees connected Friday, followed the proposal of the Joint Governing Council, Senate, and Search Team of the institution.

In a statement, the Board described the improvement arsenic a strategical measurement to consolidate the university’s ngo of delivering world-class acquisition successful Nigeria.

“The Vice-Chancellor is the main exponent of the university’s ngo and values. We are assured that Professor Nosike’s planetary experience, enactment pedigree, and passionateness for world excellence volition propel James Hope University to caller heights,” the connection read.

Prof. Nosike, who has implicit 3 decades of teaching, research, and consultancy acquisition spanning Africa, Europe, America, and Asia, expressed gratitude for the accidental to pb the young but ambitious institution.

“I americium profoundly honoured to presume this role. James Hope University represents a bold imaginativeness for Nigerian higher education, and my medication volition absorption connected world innovation, probe excellence, and gathering planetary partnerships that volition empower our students to go transformative leaders,” helium said.

Over the people of his career, Prof. Nosike has held elder world and enactment positions including Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Dean, Director, and Head of Department successful respective universities crossed the world. Before his caller appointment, helium served successful apical absorption roles astatine the International University of Equator successful Burundi, the University of Kigali successful Rwanda, Copperstone University successful Zambia, and Ugandan Pentecostal University.

He has besides been a Visiting Professor of Finance and Management astatine Kigali Independent University, and a Visiting Scholar of Globalisation and Development astatine the Universidad del País Vasco successful Spain.

Beyond academia, Nosike has consulted wide with governments, planetary agencies, and NGOs, and has organised implicit 100 planetary conferences, seminars, and workshops. His probe interests see globalisation, firm governance, improvement management, finance, and nationalist policy.

Established successful 2021 by philanthropist and concern person Jim Ovia, James Hope University is an hold of the James Hope College Foundation, which has provided prime secondary acquisition since 2013.

With Prof. Nosike present astatine the helm, stakeholders and the Board expect a caller signifier of maturation for the institution.

“This assignment signals a committedness to gathering a assemblage that competes with the champion successful the world. We expect Professor Nosike to fortify the civilization of research, innovation, and assemblage interaction that James Hope University stands for,” the Board of Trustees said.

As Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Nosike volition oversee world policies, fiscal management, pupil admissions, and the wide governance of the institution.