Profile – Nosa OWENS-IBIE Nosa OWENS-IBIE, PhD, University of Ibadan, is a Professor of Communication, Media and Development, and Vice-Chancellor, Caleb University, Imota, Lagos, Nigeria. He earned his B.Sc. (Honours) and M.Sc. degrees in mass communication, University of Lagos, in 1980 and 1983. He was the first to be appointed a professor by Caleb University in 2011, became the first substantive Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University (2018-2019), was variously Head, Department of Mass Communication, Dean of Students, Dean, College of Social and Management Sciences, and Dean, College of Postgraduate Studies. On April 9, 2013, he delivered the first inaugural lecture of the University – "Communicating and Implosion: Signs
and Wander, Popular Culture and the Crumbling of Empire". He has years of experience in professional practice in public relations, journalism, and development work, coordinated the establishment and served as the General Secretary of the Association of Communication Scholars & Professionals of Nigeria (ACSPN), from inception in 2013 till September 2024, and is now a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Association. He has published academic and developmental articles in Nigeria and other parts of the world, is a consultant biographer, was a columnist in The Guardian on Sunday and Sunday Punch newspapers for a decade, and scripted programmes on television and radio. A panellist for over two decades on one of Nigeria’s leading media awards - Diamond Awards for Media Excellence (DAME), he has consulted for International development agencies including WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, and IOM, facilitated trainings and other capacity building programmes for government agencies, multinational companies and non-governmental organisations, and coordinated the development of toolkits for ActionAid Nigeria in the areas of Health and Women’s' Right, His coordination activities in
ACSPN, covered several collaborations with UNESCO, including on the production of the Media and Information Literacy Non-Curricular Activities Materials for Sierra Leone, four of which have been adopted as global resource by UNESCO, and available on the UNESCO website –UNESDOC Digital Library; and the collaboration with UNESCO, regulatory agencies - National Board for Technical Education, Nigerian Communications Commission, National Broadcasting Commission, and Nigerian Press Council, and other stakeholders in 2015, to develop the first draft of what was launched by the National Universities Commission in December 2022 as the unbundled mass communication curriculum for universities in Nigeria. A former Federal
Government of Nigeria postgraduate Scholarship beneficiary, he is a Fellow of the International Institute of Journalism, Berlin, Germany and Salzburg Seminar, Austria, and member of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, International Association of Media and Communication  Research (IAMCR), Nigerian Academy of Letters, and Associate Member, Advertising Registration Council of Nigeria (ARCON).