{"id":7660,"date":"2017-01-12T12:05:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T11:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7660"},"modified":"2017-11-07T14:22:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T13:22:08","slug":"obi-professor-pat","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/obi-professor-pat\/","title":{"rendered":"OBI, Prof Pat"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MBA, Ph.D, financial consultant, university teacher, married, has children; Education: Institute of Management&#038;Technology, Enugu, 1977-81, South west Texas State University at San Marcos, Texas, 1985, The University of Mississippi at Oxford, Mississippi, 1989; Career: Appointed Assistant Lecturer, Accounting &#038; Statistics, Kano State Polytechnic, Kano, 1982-83; Graduate Teacher, Teaching&#038;Re search Assistant, 1985-89; Assistant Lecturer, 1982-83; Graduate Teaching &#038; Re search Assistant, Finance and Statistics, The University of Mississippi a Oxford, Mississippi, 1985-89; Assistant Professor of Finance, Purdue University, Hammond, Indiana, 1989-94; Associate Professor of Finance Purdue University, Hammond, Indiana, 1994-98; appointed Professor of Finance, Purdue University, Hammond, Indiana, 1998-Date; Consultant to USIS &#038; Purdue Research Foundation, On Business Finance Education for Lithuanian Universities; Consultant on Statistics, United States Steel Corporation, Gary, Indiana; member, Financial Management Association, FMA; member, Midwest Finance Association, MFA; member, Southwestern Finance Association, SWFA; member, Eastern Finance Association, EFA; member, Missouri Valley Economic Association; member, Midwest Business Administration Association, MBAA; member, Association for Global Business, AGB; member, Academy of Business Ad ministration, ABA; Awards\/Honours: Recipient, National Service Award by Academy Business Administration, USA, 1996,1967, 1999; recipient, Distinguished Service Award for Management Training in Lithuanian Uni versities, 1993 &#038; 1995; recipient, Beta Gramma Signa High Scholastic Award, 1990; Publication: Basics of Business Finance, USIA, 1993; plus several articles in national and international learned journals; Address: School of Management, Purdue University, Hammond, Indiana 46323, USA; E-mail: obi@calumet.purdue.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,178],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7660","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-professional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7660","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\/7660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7660"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}