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AGOMO, CHIOMA KANU: LAW AND POLICY DEVELOPMENT EXPERT

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PROF. AGOMO, CHIOMA KANU, FCArb

AGOMO, CHIOMA KANU

Designation:	Professor
Place of Residence	Lagos, Nigeria
Place of Birth:	Amaedukwu, Nkpa, Bende L.G. Abia State
Place of Work	Lagos, Nigeria

Professor Chioma Kanu Agomo is a former Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos State (2004-2008). She was the 1994-1995 Senior Fulbright Research Scholar (Southern University (A & M) Baton Rouge Louisina and Visiting Fulbright Specialist to Washington University School of Law in St Louis, Missouri, 2006. She is a veteran legal and policy strategist with specialist interests in Employment and Labour Relations; Insurance and Pensions; Social Security Law; Maternal/Reproductive Health and Gender Studies.

A graduate of Queen Mary College (now Queen Mary) University of London where she earned a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) (1976), and Master of Laws (LLM) (1977), Chioma also holds multiple certificates from the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Turin, Italy and has written/developed academic/policy presentations at home and abroad, including a scholarly presentation before the American Society of International Law.

With over thirty eight years of teaching, research and supervision experience (including the successful supervision of seven (7) Ph.D), Professor Agomo has led and collaborated in various regional, national and multi-sector policy projects. Among others, she has acted as a Consultant to the International Labour Organisation on the Declaration Project Nigeria and the CLO/Konrad Adeneur Foundation Project Social Security Project for Nigeria involving multiple public institutions including the Nigerian Presidency, National Assembly, Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA), Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund, National Health Insurance, Nigerian Medical Association, World Bank, etc.

She was also a Consultant for ECOWAS towards the ILO funded Draft Harmonisation of Labour Laws of ECOWAS Member States. Her Consultancy on the commissioned field work by the Federal Ministry of Employment, Labour and Productivity for the Evaluation of the Performance of the Industrial Arbitration Panel (IAP) and the National Industrial Court (NIC) produced a seminal report that would remain a reference point for a decade until its adoption as a working paper during the ILO supervised Declaration Project Nigeria. She is among others a member of Council and Life Member, Nigerian Society of International Law; Board member, Nigerian Association of Law Teachers; member of Board of Trustees, Prison Fellowship Nigeria (PFN), (affiliated with Prison Fellowship International (PFI); and a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Chartered Arbitrators.

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ATTENDED WITH QUALIFICATIONS

Methodist Girl’s Secondary School, Ovim, Abia State (interrupted by the Civi War) (1963-1967)

Kennington College for further Education, London S.E 1, (‘O’ Levels) (1970-1971)

Kingston College of further Education, Kingston, Surrey, (‘A’ Levels), (1971-1973)

University of London (Queen Mary College) (Now Queen Mary), LL.B. Hons, 2nd Class (Upper Div.) (1973-1976)

University of London (Queen Mary College), LL.M (1977)

Nigerian Law School (Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria), B.L [Second Class, Lower Div.] (1979-1980)

EMPLOYMENT AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

LEGAL EMPLOYMENT AND EXPERIENCE

Professor Teaching, research and research supervision in the areas of Law of Contract, Industrial Law, Insurance Law, Gender and the Law particularly the area of reproductive health and the work environment, consumer protection and product liability. Headship of the Commercial and Industrial Law, Chair and membership of various university committees, panels and groups. Increased involvement in postgraduate supervision at M.Phil/PhD levels

Associate Professor Teaching, research, and research supervision in the areas of Law of Contract, Industrial Law, Insurance Law, Law of Labour Relations, Gender studies, women and the work environment. Sub Dean, LL.M Coordinator and Chairperson, Departmental Postgraduate Committee

Visiting Senior Lecturer, Lagos State University, Ojo (LASU) Teaching, research and research supervision in the areas of Law of Contract, Business Law and Insurance Law.

Senior Lecturer Teaching, research and research supervision, in the areas of Law of Contract, Industrial Law, Insurance Law at the undergraduate Level, and Law of Labour Relations, at the LL.M level. Numerous administrative responsibilities, including Chairperson Faculty welfare Committee, Member Curriculum Committee; Member editorial Committee of the Nigerian Journal of Contemporary Law, Staff Adviser, Law Students Society.

Lecturer I Responsibilities included teaching, research and research Supervision in the areas of Law of Contract, Industrial Law and Insurance Law; Supervisor, Business Law Course, Correspondence and Open Studies Institute (COSIT) (now DLI), University of Lagos.

Law Lecturer II, (Date of First appointment 3^rd August, 1981 Department of Commercial and Industrial Law Responsibilities included teaching, research and research Supervision in the areas of Law of Contract and Commercial Transaction; teaching Insurance Law to students of Actuarial Science and Insurance, Faculty of Business Administration; Faculty Examinations Officer, and other administrative duties assigned to me by the Department, Faculty and University.

University of Lagos, Department of Commercial and Industrial Law (N.Y.S. C.). Responsibilities included taking tutorials in Law of Contract and Commercial Transactions; Assistant Examinations Officer

LEGAL POLICY RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Consultant to the Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO), on the CLO/Konrad Adeneur Foundation Project on Social Security for Nigeria. This was a Pioneering work involving all the major stake holders- the Presidency, National Assembly, Nigeria Employers Consultative association (NECA), Nigerian Social Insurance Trust Fund, National Health Insurance, Nigerian Medical Association, World Bank and others. The project which was wholly funded by the Konrad Adeneur Foundation, had reached the stage of bill drafting for presentation to the National Assembly, but was truncated by the death of Chuma Ubani, (CLO).

Senior Fulbright Research Scholar (Southern University A & M at Baton Rouge. Conducted research on Work Environment and Women; research explored the relationship between gender, discrimination and reproductive health policies in the workplace in the United States. Findings presented at the Regional Meeting of the American Society of International Law (Fifth Annual Fulbright Symposium) Golden Gate University School of Law, San Francisco, March 1995

Commissioned field work by the Federal Ministry of Employment, Labour and Productivity. Evaluation of the Performance of the Industrial Arbitration Panel (IAP) and the National Industrial Court (NIC). The report remained for more than a decade the reference Point for any enquiry on the activities of the two institutions. It was later adopted as a working paper during the ILO supervised Declaration Project Nigeria

Legal Control of the Nigerian Insurance Industry Funded by the Central Research Grant) Library based and field study of rationale, instruments, efficacy of legal control of insurance industry in Nigeria.

OTHER TECHNICAL AND CONSULTANCY EXPERI3NCES

Member, Panel that reviewed the National Industrial Court Rules made under the new Industrial Court Act

Member, NUC Accreditation Panel to evaluate the Law programmes of the Faculty of Law, University of Jos, and Faculty of Law, University of Maduguri

Member, Council of Legal Education

Member, Governing Board of Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Consultant to Legal Research and Resources Development Centre (LRRDC) on the McArthur funded Reproductive Rights and Maternal Health Project

Chairperson, Technical Committee on Product Liability Standard (Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON)

Co-opted member, National Committee on the Review of Insurance Law.

Facilitator/Local Consultant for the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Declaration Project. Promoting Democracy through Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and Tripartism.

Consultant commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Employment to carry out a nine month assessment of the performance of the National Industrial Court and the Industrial Arbitration Panel, The Report formed part of the Working Documents for the ILO Declaration Project Nigeria.

Co- designer of, and regular resource person at, the annual industrial Relations Educational Seminars of the Chemical and Non-Mettalic Products Employers Federation (CANMPEF) and National Union of Employees (NUCFRLANMP)

Resource Person at NECA’s Annual Advanced Industrial Relations Seminars.

Member, Council of Legal Education Accreditation Panel to Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Bayero University, Kano; and Usman Dan Fodio University, Sokoto

Leader, Accreditation team to University of Ghana, Legon, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, and Ghana School of Law

External Examiner to University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State; University of Jos, Jos, Plateau State; Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife; Lagos State University, Ojo; Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State; Pan African University, Lekki, Lagos; and Babcock University, Iperu/Illisan-Remo, Ogun State

Member accreditation Team, and Team Leader for the Law group, to University of Ghana, Legon, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi and Ghana School of Law.

Member , Board of Trustees Orderly Society Trust, Lagos

Member, Board of Trustees, Heritage for Life Foundation

DISTINGUISHED FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

Recognition Award by the US Exchange Alumni Association comprising the Fulbright Alumni, Hubert Humphreys and about 17 other alumni who had at one time taken part in a US exchange programme.

Personal Invitation to the public hearing on the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Third Alteration) Act, 2010

Honorary Fellow of Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London

Profiled in QUAD (Queen Mary Alumni Magazine), Issue 17, 2009. P.23

Senior Fulbright Research Scholar to Southern University A & M at Baton Rouge Louisiana

Visiting Fulbright Specialist to Washington University School of Law at Saint Louis, Missouri 2006

Distinguished Service Award by Southern University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana for promoting mutual understanding and peace between Nigerians and Americans

Distinguished Lecturer at the Nigeria Outstanding Jurist Award Investiture of the President of the National Industrial Court, Hon. Justice B.A. Adejumo, OFR was the Awardee.

Distinguished Professor of International Comparative Law, Sompong Sucharitkul DCL, wrote to commend my contributions at the Regional Conference on International Law, and 5^th Fulbright Symposium at the Golden Gate University School of Law in these words: “Your thoughts and suggestions have contributed appreciably to the increasing awareness of the need for constructive and progressive developments of international law and its practical national implementation.”

Invited participant to the American Bar Association World Justice Forum, Vienna, Austria 2008. Subsequently became a contributor to the Annual Rule of Law Index of the World Justice Project.

Elected unanimously an Honorary Fellow, Queen Mary University of London – awarded by the College Council to those who have rendered significant services to the College or the wider community. Part of the citation read: “As a teacher, Professor Agomo has nurtured some of the best legal minds in Nigeria, as a lawyer she influenced significantly the direction of labour law, and as an academic writer she opened new chapters on gender and human rights: academic impact at its best with which Queen Mary is proud to be associated.

Matron – Christian Law Students Fellowship of Nigeria (CLASFON)

TRAINING PROGRAMMES AND WORKSHOPS

International Labour Standards for Lawyers, Judges and Legal Educators, International Training Centre of the ILO, Turin –Italy (ITCILO)

Mainstreaming Gender Equality: Concepts and Instruments, ITCILO

An Introduction to Gender Budgeting in Organisations and Institutions ITCILO

Clinical Legal Education Teaching methodology and module writing at the Digital Bridge Institute Abuja

International Commercial Arbitration Introductory Course/Workshop for Nigeria (The Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration Lagos in Association with Foundation for Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution (SICA/FICA) Hague, Netherlands) Abuja

PUBLISHED BOOKS

Modern Nigeria Law of Insurance, University of Lagos Press, 2003[5 Editions published between 2003 and 2013]

Nigerian Employment and Labour Relations Law and Practice, Concept Publications, 2011

SELECTED PAPERS PUBLISHED AND/OR PRESENTED

Gender and Social Change, 16 Nigeria L.J. 14 (2012)

The Working Woman in a Changing World of Work: an Inaugural Lecture delivered at University of Lagos Main Auditorium on Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Emerging Trends in Labour, Employment and Industrial Relations: Challenges and Prospects for National Development – at Premier Hotel Ibadan, October 2013

The Third Alteration Act, 2010 and the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, at Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, Leicester, U.K. 2012

Teaching Gender in African Universities, at Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, Brighton U.K. 2011

Legal Framework for Labour and Industrial Relations at the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Lagos, June 2010

Legal Protection of Workers’ Human Rights in Nigeria: Regulatory Changes and Challenges, Human Rights at Work: Perspectives on law and Regulations, P. 229 – 257,Oxford [etc.], Hart, 2010

The Nigerian Oil and Gas Content Development Act 2010: Lessons from the implementation of the Cabotage Act, At Chartered Insurance Institute and National Insurance Commission, Lagos, August 2010

Work Environment and Women: US Practice, 2 Annual Survey of International and Comparative Law, P. 41 (1995)

The Role of the Dean Internally, at International Association of Law Schools International Conference, Australian National University, Canberra, May 2009

Legal Protection of Human Rights of Workers in Nigeria, International Institute of Sociology of Law- Onati, Spain, May, 2006

Domestic Violence at the 2^nd Annual Scientific Conference of the Medical Women’s Association of Nigeria. Lagos October, 2004

ADMINISTRATIVE AND MANAGERIAL EXPERIENCE

Faculty Examinations Officer, Faculty of Law, University of Lagos

Sub-Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Lagos

Chairperson Departmental Postgraduate Committee, Faculty of Law, University of Lagos

LL.M Coordinator, Faculty of Law, University of Lagos

Ag. Head, Department of Commercial and Industrial Law, Faculty of Law, University of Lagos

Head, Department of Commercial and Industrial Law, Faculty of Law, University of Lagos

Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Lagos

Member, Committee of Provost and Deans, University of Lagos

Head, Department of Commercial and Industrial Law, Faculty of Law, University of Lagos

Member, University of Lagos Senate

Halls of Residence Management Committee, University of Lagos

School of Postgraduate Studies Board (SPGS), University of Lagos

Academic Programmes Committee SPGS, University of Lagos

Member, University of Lagos Strategic Planning Committee

Chairperson, Personnel Sub-Committee of the University of Lagos, Strategic Planning Committee

Member, Entrepreneurship and Corporate Governance Committee, University of Lagos

Member, University of Lagos Medical Centre Management Board

Member, Distant Learning Institute Management Board (DLI), University of Lagos

Senate Representative – Central Admission Committee, University of Lagos

Chairperson, Central Admissions Committee, University of Lagos

Chairperson, Honours Committee of Senate, University of Lagos

Chair, Panel on Review of Personnel Rules and Regulations, University of Lagos

Member Entrepreneurship and Corporate Governance Management Committee, University of Lagos

Faculty of Law Appointments and Promotions Committee, University of Lagos

Member, Appointment and Promotions Board, University of Lagos

Member, Appointments and Promotions Board, (Joint Council and Senate Committee of the University)

FAITH AND COMMUNITY-BASED ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Staff Adviser – Law Students Society for over ten years

Member, Chapel Committee, Chapel of Christ our Light, University of Lagos, 2004-2006

Chairperson, Student Welfare Sub-Committee, Chapel of Christ our Light– 2004-2006 which vetted applications and facilitated financial assistance for indigent students.

Chairperson, Academic, Honours Committee, Chapel of Christ our Light, 2005-2006

Chairperson, Chapel Committee, Chapel of Christ our Light – 2006 – July 2010

Legal Adviser, Chapel Committee 2014- Date

Life Member – Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International, University of Lagos Chapter

Member Board of Trustee, The Worshippers

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