Victor has 16 years of experience in infrastructural development, including electricity systems and markets, clean energy technologies and sustainability, and water sanitation and hygiene. He has participated in developing policies and programs and facilitating sizable investment deals for infrastructural development working with partners such as The World Bank, USAID, OXFAM, and the United Nations.
He is currently the Energy & Climate Lead in Nigeria for Tony Blair Institute, providing support to the Presidency, the Federal Ministry of Power (FMoP), and a couple of State Governors. In this capacity he was involved in the reform work driven by the Presidential Power Sector Reform Coordination Working Group between 2019 and 2023 that delivered the service-based tariff reform, which saved the government over $2 billion in tariff subsidies in two years, the creation of the ongoing National Mass Metering Program, and catalysing over $3 billion of investments in the transmission and distribution segments of the Nigeria Electricity Supply Industry. With the ongoing reform that is hinged on the Electricity Act 2023, he is providing coordination and expert contribution support to the FMoP for the development of the National Integrated Electricity Policy that should drive implementation of the provisions of the EA-2023. He is also working with State Governments to conceptualise electricity market development programs for their States.
Victor holds a Masters in Project Management, Energy & Environmental Engineering from IMT Atlantique in France and a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from University of Maiduguri in Nigeria. He is an alumnus of the Oxford Sustainable Business Program of University of Oxford/ Said Business School and the Entrepreneurial Management Program of the Enterprise Development Centre of the Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos Nigeria.