Directors

Howard F. Jeter has served as a director since April 2005. Ambassador Jeter retired with the rank of Career Minister from the State Department in 2003 after a 27-year career in the Foreign Service. He is the immediate past US Ambassador to Nigeria. He also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, State Department Director for West Africa, President Clinton's Special Envoy for Liberia, and Ambassador to Botswana. Ambassador Jeter was Deputy Chief of Mission and later Charge d'Affaires in Lesotho and Namibia. He also had multi-year assignments in Tanzania and Mozambique. He earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree, with Honors, from Morehouse College and Masters Degrees in International Relations, Comparative Politics, and African Studies from Columbia University and UCLA. He is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation, Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Africa, US Export - Import Bank and a board member of Africare and Africa Action.

Clement Nwizubo is currently President of Clement E. Nwizubo, CPA, PC, a New-York based firm which he founded in 1987. From 1985 to 1987, Mr. Nwizubo was the Manager of Financial and Accounting Reporting at Primerica Corporation. From 1983 to 1985, he was the Audit Manager of Watson Rice and Company. Between 1980 and 1983 he worked as a senior accountant with Stewart Benjamin and Brown. Mr. Nwizubo is a Certified Public Accountant. He took a BS in Accounting and Business Administration in 1977 from Oneonta State College, NY and an MBA in 1980 from Fordham University. Mr. Nwizubo is a US citizen.

Andrew C. Uzoigwe, Director

Dr. Uzoigwe has served as a director since April 2005. Dr. Uzoigwe started his career with Dow Chemical Company where he held various senior positions in its Walnut Creek Research Center and in its Specialty Chemicals Production Facility in Pittsburgh, California. He joined the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in 1981. During his tenure at NNPC, Dr. Uzoigwe held several senior technical and management positions, including Chief Engineer and Project Coordinator (Petrochemicals), Group General Manager (R&D Division), and Managing Director of NNPC’s Refining and Petrochemicals subsidiaries. In 1999 he was appointed the Group Executive Director (Exploration and Production), a position he held until he retired from NNPC in 2002. Dr. Uzoigwe is a Registered Professional Mechanical Engineer and a Registered Professional Chemical Engineer in the State of California. He is also a fellow of the Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers and a Fellow of the Polymer Institute of Nigeria.