By Yakubu LAAH InvestAdvocate
Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE) – Indigenous independent oil and gas company newly listed over a month ago at the Nigerian bourse on Monday announced the appointment of two (2) new directors to its board.
The company said it has appointed Damian Dodo SAN (INED) and Madame Nathalie Delapalme (Alternate and French) as directors of the Company.
Seplat said Dodo qualified as a legal practitioner in Nigeria in 1986. In 2001 he was appointed a senior advocate of Nigeria. He is an associate member of the chartered institute of arbitrators London.
According to the oil and gas firm, as a legal practitioner, Dodo has acted for numerous clients including the federal government of Nigeria, major corporations such as; Niger Delta power holding Company Limited, Bureau of Public Enterprises, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Nigerian Communication Commission, National Pension Commission and the Petroleum Equalization Fund and numerous other clients.
He served on a number of commissions including; the NNPC Commission of Inquiry, National Executive Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association, the Governing Board of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons and he currently chairs the National Lottery Regulatory Commission.
Dodo was awarded the prestigious National Honour of the Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by President Goodluck Jonathan. Recently, he was also awarded Fellowship by the Nigerian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies and he is happily married with children.
While Delapalme, career spanned as follow:- June 2010 to Present: Mo Ibrahim Foundation (London) – Executive Director
– 2007 – 2010: French Ministry of Economy and Finances -Inspecteur Général des Finances
– 2002 – 2007: French Foreign Ministry – Africa Advisor to the Minister
– 1997 – 2002: French Senate: Advisor to the Public Finances and General Budget Committee; Public policies, public expenditures, fiscal policies monitoring- Main budgets followed: Defence, Development aid, Foreign Affairs, Research, ITC, Education, Environment
– 1995 – 1997: French Development Ministry: Deputy Head of Minister’s Office
– 1987 – 1995: French Senate: Advisor to the Public Finances and General Budget Accounting Committee
– 1984 – 1987: French Senate: Member of the Public policies Research team
– 1978 – 1984: Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris – Researcher
Mandates (Board memberships)
– CFAO: Supervisory Board, Nominations Committee, CSR Committee (Chair)
– Maurel & Prom: Board, Audit Committee
MPI: Board, Audit Committee
– Fondation Pierre Fabre: Board
Fondation Elle: Board
Mo Ibrahim Foundation: Board
– WEF (World Economic Forum) Global Agenda Council on Fragile States
– WEF Expert Panel on Strategic Infrastructure in Africa
– Cooperation Commission of UNICEF-France
– Executive Committee of Commentaire
– IFRI (Institut Francais des Relations Internationales), Degrees
– Paris Institut d’Etudes Politiques (1977)
– DEA Economie Appliquée (1979)
Others
– Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Légion d’honneur
– Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite
– African orders: Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, Gabon, Tchad, Congo-Brazza, Niger
– Membre correspondant de l’Académie des Sciences d’Outremer
