Talk:Obadiah Mailafia

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Membership of professional bodies

• Royal Economic Society (UK)
• Nigerian Economic Society
• American Economic Society(USA)
• The Oxford Society, England (UK)
• Chartered Institute of Development Administration (Nigeria)
• Global Association of Risk Professionals (USA)
• International Studies Association (USA)
• Development Studies Association (UK)
• The Aristotelian Society (UK)
• Forum d’Échanges et des Rencontres Administratifs Mondiaux (FERAM), Paris, France

Honours and special assignments

• Member, Advisory Board of Economists, Office of the Vice-President, Abuja
• Associate Fellow, UN University Regional Studies Centre, Bruges, Belgium
• Visiting Professor, The Free University of Brussels
• Board Member, National Competitiveness Council of Nigeria (NCCN), Lagos
• Non-Executive Director, Nigerian Breweries PLC (NBPLC), Lagos
• Board Member, International Energy- IEI Anchor Pensions Capital Ltd
• Chairman, Juvicle Energy Resources Ltd, Lagos
• Member, Oxford Rhodes Scholar Trust Selection Committee for West Africa
• Nordic Institute Visiting Fellowship to the Nordic African Institute, with multiple accreditation to Norway, Finland and Denmark), 1990
• President Mamoun Beheiry Award for Professional Excellence, African Development Bank, Tunis, 2003
• CBN Staff Award for Excellence in Leadership, 2005
• Expert to the Netherlands Commission for International Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, Netherlands, 2013
• MacArthur Foundation Research Award 2008
• Foreign & Commonwealth Office Scholar,
  Oriel College, University of Oxford
• Webb Medley Research Grant, Faculty of Social Studies, University of Oxford
• Distinguished Lecturer, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) Annual Distinguished Lecture Series, 2016
• Special Speaker, National Merit Annual Conference, National Merit Commission, Abuja, November 2016
• Special Award for Excellence, West African Students’ Parliament, 2016
• Award for Distinguished Service, National Economics Students Association (NESA), University of Port Harcourt, 2017
• Grand Patron (Garkuwan Matasan Arewa), Northern Youths Consultative Assembly, February 2017
• National Patron, Nigerian Youths Parliament, Abuja, 2017
• Patron of the Boys Brigade, Nasarawa State, Nigeria