Talk:Obadiah Mailafia

Membership of professional bodies

 * Royal Economic Society (UK)
 * Nigerian Economic Society
 * American Economic Society(USA)
 * The Oxford Society, England (UK)
 * Chartered Institute of Development Administration (Nigeria)
 * Global Association of Risk Professionals (USA)
 * International Studies Association (USA)
 * Development Studies Association (UK)
 * The Aristotelian Society (UK)
 * Forum d’Échanges et des Rencontres Administratifs Mondiaux (FERAM), Paris, France

Honours and special assignments

 * Member, Advisory Board of Economists, Office of the Vice-President, Abuja
 * Associate Fellow, UN University Regional Studies Centre, Bruges, Belgium
 * Visiting Professor, The Free University of Brussels
 * Board Member, National Competitiveness Council of Nigeria (NCCN), Lagos
 * Non-Executive Director, Nigerian Breweries PLC (NBPLC), Lagos
 * Board Member, International Energy- IEI Anchor Pensions Capital Ltd
 * Chairman, Juvicle Energy Resources Ltd, Lagos
 * Member, Oxford Rhodes Scholar Trust Selection Committee for West Africa
 * Nordic Institute Visiting Fellowship to the Nordic African Institute, with multiple accreditation to Norway, Finland and Denmark), 1990
 * President Mamoun Beheiry Award for Professional Excellence, African Development Bank, Tunis, 2003
 * CBN Staff Award for Excellence in Leadership, 2005
 * Expert to the Netherlands Commission for International Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, Netherlands, 2013
 * MacArthur Foundation Research Award 2008
 * Foreign & Commonwealth Office Scholar, Oriel College, University of Oxford
 * Webb Medley Research Grant, Faculty of Social Studies, University of Oxford
 * Distinguished Lecturer, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) Annual Distinguished Lecture Series, 2016
 * Special Speaker, National Merit Annual Conference, National Merit Commission, Abuja, November 2016
 * Special Award for Excellence, West African Students’ Parliament, 2016
 * Award for Distinguished Service, National Economics Students Association (NESA), University of Port Harcourt, 2017
 * Grand Patron (Garkuwan Matasan Arewa), Northern Youths Consultative Assembly, February 2017
 * National Patron, Nigerian Youths Parliament, Abuja, 2017
 * Patron of the Boys Brigade, Nasarawa State, Nigeria