| Expert Name | Mr. Lihwu Eugene Akeh |
| Title | Deputy Director |
| Division | Meteorological Services Department |
| Institution | Ministry of Aviation |
| City | Lagos |
| Country | Nigeria |
| Telephone | 234 1 263 371 |
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| Work Experience | 1. 1988-1992: Acting Assistant Director (Applied Meteorology and Co-ordinating) Head Agrometeorological, Hydromet, Marine Environment and Computer (DATA) Units
2. 1988 - to date: Officer-in-charge of Natural Disasters and Ecological Problems
3. 1991-1993: National Counterpart Expert on the WMO/UNDP Agromet Project NIR/88/004; Assistant Director Agrometeorological Services and Special Assistant to the Director of Meteorology and Permanent Representative of Nigeria with WMO, Geneva
4. 1993 - to date: Officer-in-Charge of the preparation of Departmental 3-year Rolling Plan and Annual Budget
5. 1994: World Met. Organisation/UNDP Consultation Technical and Environmental Project Development
6. 1995 - to date: Deputy Director Applied Services Division/Department Project and Budget Development Officer |
| Qualifications | B.Sc. Physics, Second Class Honour, 1974, University of Nigeria Nsukka
Postgraduate Diploma Meteorology, 1976, Ibadan, Nigeria
M.Sc. Agricultural Meteorology, 1978, Reading, England |
| Number of Publications | 12 |
| Awards | 1. German academic exchange services
2. Award in Physics, University of Nigeria Nsukka, 1971-1974 |
| Other Activities | 1. 1993 to date: National Treasurer of the Nigerian Remote Sensing Society
2. 1992 to date: Preparation of Departmental and Ministerial Reports and Memoranda
3. 1993 to date: Government Focal Point for ECOWAS Meteorological Projects
4. 1997: ECOWAS/WMO Evaluation Expert of the UNDP/WMO Drought Monitoring
5. WMO Reporteur on Agricultural Meteorology (RA.1)
5. Member of UN/WMO Advisory Working Group on Agricultural/Environmental Commission |
| Publications | 1. Global warming and current actions for possible solution, 1990
2. UNDP/WMO Commission on Agricultural Meteorology (CAM) Report No. 39, 1992
3. Trends and prospects of the growth and development of the Nigerian Meteorological Services,1996
4. Significance of free water surface evaporation on water resources management in semi-arid, arid and dry sub-humid regions of Nigeria, 1997 |
| Discipline | Agricultural Sciences |
| Last updated | 10/05/2007 10:20:00 |
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