President Tinubu has appointed a certified public-private partnership expert, Dr. Jobson Oseodion Ewalefoh as the new Director-General of the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC).
Ewalefoh is a professional with over two decades of experience in Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), Concessions and Privatisation, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development and deployment, Innovation, project management, procurement processes and procedures, organisation and strategy, process improvement, public policy reform and development, leadership and governance.
His appointment is among the latest appointments made by President Tinubu towards the delivery of his Renewed Hope Agenda.
While making the appointment, the President charged Ewalefoh to bring his wealth of experience to bear and demonstrate absolute dedication and integrity in the management of the ICRC and in pursuit of its strategic objective of accelerating investment in national infrastructure through the innovative mobilisation of private-sector funding.
Until his appointment, Ewalefoh was the Director of Operations, in charge of the Public Private Partnership Resource Department (P3RD) of the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) with responsibility for the development, procurement and delivery of public infrastructure projects in the energy, agricultural, oil and gas, urban, social, defence and security sectors.
He had previously served as the Director of the Contract Compliance Department (CCD) of the ICRC, where he oversaw the monitoring and compliance of over 100 concession agreements in energy, port (wet and dry), agriculture, aviation, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), healthcare services, financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing and railways with responsibility for the custody of all the PPP contracts executed at the federal level.
He was the pioneer Head of the Information & Communication Technology (ICT) unit of the ICRC that undertook the setting up of the ICRC ICT infrastructure, by implementing and deploying the ICT backbone of the Commission.
Prior to joining the ICRC, Ewalefoh was involved in the implementation of the European Union (EU) support to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), as a consultant for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), with responsibility for implementing the ICT component of the project, which involved a nationwide ICT infrastructure deployment in support of the anti-corruption program in the country.
He started his career with the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), where he played a pivotal role in Nigeria’s reform and privatisation of public enterprises.
His appointment is subject to confirmation by the senate.
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