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Arthur Ekwue was born on 11 October 1954 and attended Government Secondary School Afikpo until June 1973. He was admitted at the University of Ibadan for the one-year Preliminary Science programme in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry during the 1973/74 academic year but transferred to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka where he obtained his B.Sc (Eng.) degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering with First class honours in June 1978 and was awarded the University prize for the best graduating student in the Department. After the National Youth Service, in October 1979, he was admitted to Imperial College, London on UK Commonwealth Scholarship and was awarded the PhD (University of London) degree in June 1982. He obtained the MBA degree in February 1994 from City, University of London. He retired as the Divisional Director (Power Systems) with Jacobs Engineering Inc. based in London in November 2019. 
Between June 1982 and January 1989, Arthur held academic/ research posts in Universities within the UK (Imperial College – under the Royal Society Fellowship scheme and Queen Mary College, University of London – as a Science Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow) and in Nigeria (University of Port-Harcourt and Federal University of Technology, Owerri - FUTO). Arthur visited the University of Zimbabwe/Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority in Harare for two months in 1985 under the auspices of the UK Commonwealth Universities Commission. He was promoted Senior Lecturer at FUTO in June 1986 and subsequently appointed the first Head of the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering in that institution.
Since 1981, Arthur has published over 160 research papers in international scientific journals, conferences and colloquia in power system analysis & control and the application of computational intelligence techniques. He is co-author of a book entitled: “Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Power Systems” published in March 1997 and author of “Worked Examples in Power Systems Engineering” (University of Nigeria Press Ltd, 2015). He has served on several Technical Programme Committees of International Conferences in his area of expertise as well as an External Examiner for the B.Eng./M.Sc/M.Phil/Ph.D degrees to six UK Universities. Arthur has acted as External Assessor for Readership/Professorship appointments/promotions to three UK Universities, a German University and two Universities in Nigeria. He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Renewable Energy Technology. Arthur was appointed a Visiting Professor of Power Systems at FUTO (January 1996); University of Glasgow - UK (April 2000); Brunel Institute of Power Systems, Brunel University of London - UK (Sept 2006) and University of Nigeria, Nsukka (April 2014). He is currently a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor, Brunel University of London and an Independent Assessor to UK Research & Innovation.
Arthur is a Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Engineering – June 2024; Fellow, Institution of Electrical Engineers in UK – March 2003; Senior Member, IEEE in USA – October 1989 with Life membership – January 2020; Chartered Engineer, Engineering Council, London – October 1988; Registered Engineer by Council of Registered Engineers of Nigeria (COREN) – January 1986.

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