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Professor Afam Icha-Ituma is the Vice-Chancellor of Coal City University. He is an outstanding institutional builder and has a strong track record of delivery in institutional growth, efficiency and performance improvement. Prior to his appointment, he was the Dean of Faculty of Management and Social Sciences, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike (AE-FUNAI), Ebonyi State.
He previously served AE- FUNAI as pioneer Director of Academic Planning, pioneer Director of Information and Communications Technology, pioneer Director of Centre for Entrepreneurship and Employability, pioneer Director Centre for Internationalization, Linkages and Global Ranking, pioneer Dean Faculty of Education and member of the University Governing Council.
Afam Icha-Ituma started his academic career in the United Kingdom as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Brunel University. He held academic posts as Research Fellow and Lecturer at Brunel University, Senior Lecturer at Bournemouth University (UK), Academic Consultant at Mountbatten Institute (UK) and Professor of Human Resource Management at AE-FUNAI.
Professor Icha-Ituma has vast international experience. He is a Visiting Professor of Human Resource Management and Internationalisation at the University of Lincoln (UK) and has been a Visiting Research Fellow at Kingston Business School (UK), Visiting Fellow at the African Studies Centre, University of Leiden (Netherlands), Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the University of London (UK), Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the University of Lisbon (Portugal), Erasmus+ Visiting Professor at the University of Kent (UK) and Linnaeus-Palme Academic Visitor at the University of Gavle (Sweden).
