Dr. Victor Udo is the Director of Sustainability at Bucknell University, Lewisburg Pennsylvania where he Chairs the President’s Sustainability Council (PSC) consisting of the President, Provost, CFO, senior faculty, students, and staff. He provides leadership of the PSC to oversee a simultaneous planning and implementation process for the environmental sustainability objectives in the university strategic plan under four cross-disciplinary working groups: zero waste, carbon neutrality, ecological improvements, and environmental, social and governance (ESG) impacts centric socially responsible investing. He is also the Co-Chair of the Finance and Administration Division’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) council covering over 300 employees.
Before joining Bucknell, Dr. Udo reported directly to two consecutive Governors of Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria as the Senior Special Assistant on Power covering the entire electric power sector from 2012 to 2015 and to the next Governor on Planning covering comprehensive sustainable development planning from 2016 to 2019. He was appointed by the eventual US Senator Chris Coons to a Planning Board in Delaware and by the New Jersey Governor to the Renewable Energy Task Force as well as assisting Governments in Africa. Dr. Udo is a former CEO with international sustainability and utility processes leadership in academia, state and local governments and Fortune 500 corporate energy companies.
He has significant experience in identifying, analyzing, and incorporating global energy, economic, environmental, and educational trends into both public and private sector governance and infrastructure management. He is passionate about the convergence of renewable energy resources and storage, electrification of transportation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and Blockchain in the decarbonization, decentralization, and digitalization of business, academic, and public policy processes including ESG and DEI. Dr. Udo obtained his Ph.D. in urban affairs and public policy (sustainable development) from the University of Delaware. He has a master’s degree in energy and environmental policy from the University of Pennsylvania along with a master’s and BSEE from Howard University. He is an author of publications on global, national, and local sustainability, technology, engineering, public policy and corporate governance issues.