Nigeria’s leading communication professionals and public relations strategist has bagged a Ph.D. degree from Babcock University.

Victor Ikem, who is the Managing Director of Conversation Media Limited, a Lagos-based full services media and communication company, has spent nearly two decades in core advertising, public relations, and general communication practice actively advising business leaders, policymakers, politicians, and corporate organisations on communication strategies and providing media advisory services to brands and companies in diverse industries including banking, energy, oil and gas, entertainment, manufacturing, real estate, as well as non-profit.

He has a bachelor’s degree in communication and media studies  from Delta State University. Following this, he proceeded to University of Lagos where he obtained a master’s degree, specialising in marketing communication (advertising and public relations), and has just completed a Ph.D. degree at Babcock University specialising in development communication, with an interest in development media practice and public policy communication.

A strategic, and committed communication professional, Dr. Ikem has garnered cognate experience across various aspects of the communication practice with a proficient general business management competency and a depth of administrative and organisational leadership skill.

This is backed by demonstrated history of working in established corporate roles across big, mid and small-size organisations, founding and managing a start-up, and playing an active part in diverse non-corporate and social teams.

The completion of a Ph.D. degree has added to his depth and deft in communication practice as proof of his commitment to the chosen field where he has repeatedly excelled, as a practitioner and now a communication scholar.

He is a member of multiple academic and professional bodies.