Professor Emeritus Omowuni O. Iledare

Professor Emeritus Omowuni O. Iledare

GNPC Professorial Chair, Oil & Gas, University Of Cape Coast

Omowumi Iledare, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus in Petroleum Economics, Fellow NAEE, Snr. Fellow USAEE, Fellow NSE NIPetE, Fellow Energy Institute. Professor Emeritus Wumi Iledare (PEWI) has over 40 years of technical, professional, and academic experience in the economics of oil and gas industry and the global oil and gas economy. Currently, PEWI serves as the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) Chair in Oil and Gas Studies at the University of Cape Coast, Oil and Gas Institute, Ghana. He is also the Executive Director, Emmanuel Egbogah Foundation for Petroleum Industry Economics and Policy Advocacy, Abuja, Nigeria. A Professor Emeritus in Petroleum Economics at Louisiana State University, Center for Energy Studies, USA and Fmr. Director, SPE Africa Region; Chirota and Emmanuel Egbogah Distinguished Professor and Fmr. Director, Emerald Energy Institute, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria (2013-2019). He is an expert in upstream petroleum economics, international petroleum and fiscal systems economics, and geopolitics and economics of energy resources. Iledare, holds a B.Sc. degree in Petroleum Engineering with honors from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria (1979); an M.S. in Energy Resources from University of Pittsburgh School of Engineering (1985); and a Ph.D. in Energy and Mineral Resources from West Virginia University, College of Mineral and Energy Resources, (1990).

PEWI previously worked as petroleum/reservoir engineer for Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in Nigeria (1980-1983), and a reservoir/production engineer trainee with Mobil Producing Nigeria (1979-1980), and as an Energy Specialist or the California Energy Commission, Sacramento. He publishes, severally, on upstream oil and gas economics and policy. He ranks among the top 500 SCOPUS authors in Nigeria, 2014-2020. PEWI served on the Nigeria National Assembly Technical Advisory Team on Petroleum Industry Reforms to the Joint Committee on Petroleum Industry Bills from 2015-2021. He is member of the Board of Trustee of the SPE Nigeria Council; he has served as Africa Regional Director on the SPE International Board of Directors, 2019-2021.

Professor Iledare is a Fellow and Fmr. President of the Nigeria Association for Energy Economics (NAEE, 2015-2019); a Senior Fellow and the 2008 President of United States Association for Energy Economics (USAEE); and the 2014 President of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE). He has received several professional awards including NAEE Lifetime Achievement award, Outstanding Contribution to petroleum engineering in information and management discipline in SPE Africa Region; SPE Nigeria Council Best Technical paper presentation; and the IAEE outstanding contribution award to the International Association for Energy Economics. He is married to his HSGF, Abike Joyce.