Ndubuisi Ekekwe holds two doctoral and four master’s degrees, including a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore and MBA from University of Calabar, Nigeria. He formerly held the title of Banking Executive with Diamond Bank Plc, Lagos and is the Founder/President of the non-profit African Institution of Technology.

He has authored two books on microelectronics and electrochemistry (Adaptive Application-Specific Instrumentation and Control Microsystems, and Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy: Corrosion Behavior Application) and recently completed editing a nanotechnology and microelectronics book (Nanotechnology and Microelectronics: Global Diffusion, Economics and Policy) that provided a roadmap for emerging technology diffusion in developing nations. More than forty five authors from twenty nations contributed in this book.



An inventor, he developed and filed a patent on microchip used in minimally invasive surgical robots and has authored many journal and conference papers. Dr. Ekekwe has organized more than thirty five seminars and workshops on technology design, innovation and diffusion across Africa for schools, small firms and governments. He obtained BEng electrical & electronics engineering from Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria (Aug 1998) where he finished top of his class.

Some of his awards/fellowships include: Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering fellowship, United States National Science Foundation ERC fellowship, Jay D Samstag fellowship, United Kingdom Congress on Computer Assisted Orthopedic Surgery fellowship, United States Electrical Manuf. & Coil Winding Association scholarship, University Scholar (FUTO), Johns Hopkins Institutions Diversity Recognition Award (nominee), etc.

Dr. Ekekwe, featured in Marquis' Who's Who in America (2010 ed), is the Chair, IEEE (Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers) Boston GOLD Executive Committee.

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It gladdens my heart to see the younger generation of Nigerians doing it big in the academic world.

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