Profile

With extensive experience in global Oil & Gas exploration, development and production, Debo Lukanmbi currently works as a Commercial Advisor in Corporate Business Development for Chevron Corporation at their San Ramon, California global corporate headquarters. Prior to this he worked in Chevron’s Global Upstream Strategy & Planning team, supporting top-level executives in managing the Corporation’s global Upstream development strategies. Previously, Debo was Advisor/Special Assistant to the Chairman/Managing Director of Chevron Nigeria & Mid-Africa and also the Business Manager for Policy Government & Public Affairs for Chevron’s Nigeria/Mid-Africa Business Unit. Earlier in his career, he was a field engineer for Schlumberger Oilfield Services and Interface manager for Acergy Group on Oil & Gas Deep-water facilities development.

Debo Lukanmbi also serves currently as Co-Country Chair for Nigeria in the “Africa 2.0 Organization” (www.africa2point0.org), a Pan-African civil society organization that consists of emerging leaders from Africa and the Diaspora, who share a collective vision for Africa and a commitment to finding and implementing sustainable solutions that will in turn leapfrog the development of the continent.

Debo is an Electrical/Electronics Engineer by training and has an M.B.A. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.)