One of Nigeria’s leading communication professionals and a frontline public relations strategist has bagged a Ph.D. degree from Babcock University. Victor Ikem who is currently the managing director of Conversation Media Limited, a Lagos-based full services media and communication company, has spent nearly two decades in core advertising, public relations, and general communication practice actively advising business leaders, policymakers, politicians, and corporate organizations on communication strategies, and providing media advisory services to brands and companies in diverse industries including banking, energy, oil and gas, entertainment, manufacturing, real estate, as well as non-profit.
He
graduated from Delta State University, earning a bachelor’s degree in
communication and media studies with a major in print journalism. Following
this, he proceeded to the prestigious University of Lagos where he obtained a
master’s degree, specializing in marketing communication (advertising and
public relations), and has just completed a Ph.D. degree at Babcock University specializing
in development communication, with an interest in development media practice
and public policy communication.
A consummate, strategic, and committed communication
professional, Dr. Ikem has garnered cognate experience across various aspects
of the communication practice with a proficient general business management competency
and a depth of administrative and organizational leadership skills. This is
backed by a demonstrated history of working in established corporate roles across
big, mid and small-size organizations, founding and managing a start-up, and playing
an active part in diverse non-corporate and social teams. The completion of a Ph.D. degree has added to his depth
and deft in communication practice as proof of his commitment to the chosen
field where he has repeatedly excelled, as a practitioner and now a communication
scholar. In keeping with his pledge to continuous
learning and self-development, Victor has
attended courses, training, capacity-building workshops, academic conferences,
and trade programs in the United States, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, South
Africa, and France. He is a member
of multiple academic and professional bodies.
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