{"id":7324,"date":"2017-01-09T10:16:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T09:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7324"},"modified":"2017-05-08T11:45:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T10:45:27","slug":"ob1gwe-austen-i-n","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ob1gwe-austen-i-n\/","title":{"rendered":"OB1GWE, Austen I. N"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.A, MBA; banker, administrator, b: August 7, 1954; so:Imo; married; nc:4, ed:University of Florida (FAU), Boca Raton Campus, Florida, 1979; University ofDistrict ofColumbia, Washington DC, 1981;cr ResearchAssistant totheHead, DepartmentofEconomics, University ofFlorida, 1977-79; CreditAnalyst First Variable Rate Fund, Washington DC, 1980-81;NYSC, BankingServices Department ICON Limited (Merchant Bankers), 1982-83; Account Officer, Credit and Marketing, 1983-86; Relationship Manager, Institutional Banking groups Nigeria International Bank Limited, 1986; Head, Local Corporation Group\/Public Sector\/Financial Institution, 1990; Head, Petroleum\/World Corporation Group\/Public Sector, 1990-92; Reassigned Head, Energy Group, 1992-93; Group Head, Corporate Banking and Public Sector Group (Institutional Banking Group), 1993. elected Board member, 1995; Founder\/ceo, Premier Energy Support Services Limited, 1997-2001; Managing Director\/ceo, broad Bank ofNigeria Limited, 2001-05; Executive Director, International Banking, Union Bank of Nig. PIc,currently, participant: Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, 1992-97; Advanced Trade Finance Seminar, 1991; Shell Petroleum Oil Seminar, Lagos and Warri; 1991; Managing People, Citibank, London, 1990; Financial Institutions RiskAnalysis Seminar, Citibank, NewYork, 1990;African National Development Conference, 1990;RiskAsset Review, Citibank, Sudan, 1989; Face toFace Selling Skills (marketing\/selling from customer perspective), 1989;TeachingSimulation Game, Lagos, 1989; Early Problem Recognition,Citibank, Dubai, 1989;Citibank&#8217;s Entry Level Operation Module, i988;Alcar, Value planner, Lagos, 1988; IntermediateCreditSeminar, Citibank Bahrain, Middle East 1988;Advance FinanceandAccount Financial Institution Training Centre, Lagos, 1984; Operations and International Transactions Module, ICON andMorgan Guaranty Trust CompanyofNew York in Lagos, 1982; Credit Analysis Skills; First Variable Rate Fund and Citibank,NewYork, 1981; off: Executive Director, Corporateand International Banking, Union Bank ofNigeria PIc, Lagos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,178],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7324","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-professional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7324"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}