Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob

Dr. Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob is the Panitza Memorial Endowed Executive Director of the CIDC. He previously served as the Under-Secretary-General for Research, Evaluation, and Foresight at the Organisation of Southern Cooperation. He was the Dean of Graduate School and Research at the American University of Nigeria (AUN) and the Oversight Chair of the Atiku Institute – the development, research, and enterprise arm of the university. Jacob's academic career includes positions at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation, Dickinson College, and as an adjunct professor of Media in War and Peace at the US Army War College, Carlisle. Jacob earned his PhD in Communication Studies at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom.