Education
Ahmadu Bello University. University of East Anglia.
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Ibrahim Khalil
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Career
He was Vice-Chancellor of Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria from 1979 to 1986. He holds a Bachelor of Science in physics and mathematics from Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria, a Master of Science in physics from Northern Illinois University, United States of America and a Doctor of Philosophy (1974) in physics at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom.
In 1976 he became the first Nigerian academic in physics to teach at Bayero University.
In 1978 he served on the national constitutional assembly that drafted the Constitution of the 2nd Republic. Between 1994 and 1997, Umar served as Sole Administrator of the Federal University of Technology, Minna.
He represented Nigeria at the Executive Assembly of the World Energy Council from 1990. He served as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency for 2000-2001.
In 2004 he was the Director of the Centre for Energy Research and Training, where the first Nigerian research nuclear reactor is located.
In 2007, he was on the international advisory committee for the international workshop on Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development in Africa, held at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in Nigeria.
Membership
He was a member of the Nigerian delegation to the International Atomic Energy Agency (International Atomic Energy Agency) General Conference from 1989 and was appointed Director-General of the Energy Commission of Nigeria in 1989.
