Reynolds Bekinbo Dagogo-Jack
| Reynolds Bekinbo Dagogo-Jack | |
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| Chairman, Presidential Task Force on Power | |
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Assumed office 5 September 2012 |
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| President | Goodluck Jonathan |
| Preceded by | Prof. Bart O. Nnaji |
| Co-Chairman, Inter-Ministerial Emergency Committee on Gas-to-Power | |
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Assumed office 17 May 2014 |
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| President | Goodluck Jonathan |
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| Born |
4 December 1957 Abonnema, Akuku-Toru LGA, Rivers State, Nigeria |
| Parents | Chief Karibi Jim Dagogo-Jack, Iju VIII of Abonnema (father) Mrs B. K. Dagogo-Jack (mother) |
| Alma mater |
University of Benin Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Reynolds Bekinbo Dagogo-Jack, OFR (born 4 December 1957), popularly known as Beks, is a Nigerian civil engineer, technocrat and public servant. For over thirty years, Dagogo-Jack has been active in both the public and private sector, especially in areas of government/public administration and project management including engineering, construction and manufacturing.
On 5 September 2012, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan reconstituted the twin Presidential agencies instituted as special purpose vehicles to fast-track the implementation of the national electric power reform program: the Presidential Action Committee on Power (PACP) and the Presidential Task Force on Power (PTFP), appointing Dagogo-Jack to serve as Chairman of the PTFP and also a member of the PACP. Dagogo-Jack had been with the PTFP from its inception in June 2010, serving as a Senior Special Assistant to the President and also Senior Performance Monitor for the National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP). In this capacity, he led the special team that supervised governmental and private agencies managing over four hundred power infrastructure projects covering gas, generation, transmission and distribution projects.
On 29 September 2014, President Goodluck Jonathan conferred on him the prestigious Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR).
Dagogo-Jack is from Abonnema, a riverine community in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State. He was born into the illustrious Dagogo-Jack family. His parents are Chief Karibi Jim Dagogo-Jack, Iju VIII of Abonnema & Mrs B. K. Dagogo-Jack. His elder brother, Chief Sumner Karibi Dagogo-Jack, was the former Nigerian Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, while his immediate older brother, Dr. Samuel Dagogo-Jack, a renowned US-based internist, was named 2013 Internal Medicine Physician of the Year by the United States National Medical Association.
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