The Live Wire

Dr. Mrs. Felicia Mogo is a cerebral personality with a quiet bearing and philanthropic mien, whose career as a civil servant is forced to eclipse. But like a golden fish, she has no hiding place. The deposit is a virtue.

She currently heads the Marine Environment Management (MEM) Department of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) having acquired over 27 years’ experience in marine, coastal and terrestrial environment management with practical skills in policy and regulation formulation, but with special interest in formulation of standards and guidelines for sustainable environment management.

A professional environmentalist, Dr. Mogo is a member of numerous bodies in related discipline with manifest values added over the years and so being a member of groups of Experts on Scientific Aspect of Marine Environment Protection (GESAMP), a United Nations advisory body on diverse aspects of marine environment management, in affiliation with UNEP-GPA, and the International Maritime Organization (IMO), she has immense wherewithal on International negotiation, strategic guidelines on implementation, compliance, monitoring and enforcement, planning organization, setting-up of national environmental regulatory arms, marine environmental investigation, and researching for decision making.

Dr. Mogo, even as a civil servant in Nigeria of today has continental and national burden. She wants to maximize her global contacts and professional experiences to bridge the knowledge gap in marine environment management in Africa, and as such she is already channeling her weight towards ensuring that the marine resources in the region are explored in a sustainable manner. It is simply safe to call her “Madam Blue Economy”.

An author and co-author of many books on her areas if specialization, She did her Ph. D in Ecology and Ecotoxicology at the University of Port Harcourt with numerous other post-graduate programmes taken in both foreign and local universities. Above all, she is a manager of human and material resources.