{"id":7434,"date":"2017-01-10T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7434"},"modified":"2020-12-07T11:36:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T10:36:26","slug":"ebong-chief-dr-ime-ekpo","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ebong-chief-dr-ime-ekpo\/","title":{"rendered":"EBONG, Chief (Dr) Ime Ekop"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M.Sc, Ph.D, economist, administrator, financial consul tant, born September 3, 1933, Itam, Akwa Ibom State; married Christa-Maria Felten 1962, one son, two daughters; Education: Hope Waddcll Training Institution , Calabar, 1947-52, Dennis Memorial Grammar School, Onitsha, 1953, University College, Ibadan, 1954-58, University of Heidelberg, WestGermany, 1960-67; Research Assistant, Faculty of Economics, University of Heidelberg, West Germany, 1965-66; Research Economist, African Development Bank, Abidjan, Ivory Coast (now Cote D&#8217;lvoire), 1970-73; Head, Current Analysis Division, ADB, Abidjan, 1973-75; Director, Office of the President, ADB, Abidjan, 1975-76; Director of Research, Federal Ministry of Finance, Lagos, 1976-77; Deputy Managing Director, ICON Limited (Merchant Bankers), Lagos, 1977-78; Manag ing Director. ICON Limited, Lagos, 1978-84; Managing Associate, Ime Ebong Associates, since 1985; Executive Chairman, Cowrie Credit Limited, since 1986; Managing Director and Chief Executive, Century Merchant Bank, since 1988; Traditional Titles: Adaha Ke Ibibio (Pillar of Ibibioland); Obong Ikpa Isong of Ikot Ayan Itam; Recipient. Gold Medal for Export Promotion, 1984; Publication: Development Finance Under Constraints \u2014 A Decade of African Development Bank (Bad Godesberg, Fricdrich Ebert Research Institute, 1974); Hobbies: collection of African Arts and Antiques, reading, writing, study of world religions; Official address: line Ebong Associates, 37 Campbell Street, Second Floor. PO Box 53616, Lagos, or II Burma Road, Apapa, Lagos; Telephone: (01) 632582. 634780; Home: 16 Probyn Road, Ikovi. Lagos; Telephone: (01) 684314.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,2403],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7434","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-economist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7434","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\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7434"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}