Leadership
The teams accountable for delivery
Led by founder and Chief Executive Dr E. Paul Mbuagbor. Further appointments are recorded by function and published once confirmed — never before.
Dr E. Paul Mbuagbor
Dr Paul Ekor Mbu Agbor
Dr E. Paul Mbuagbor is the founder and Chief Executive of the Nation Building Project. For more than thirty years his work has centred on leadership in all its forms: training and capacity building, and the mentoring and coaching of government leaders, people in authority and company executives.
He is an expert adviser to government leaders on nation building and leadership, and the African representative of a financial consortium, in association with RENILA, for structural public-private partnership projects. He has initiated the financing of the Madiba City project in Douala and of a national university housing project, and led investment missions to Tanzania and Zimbabwe at the request of their presidents.
He designed a complete academic curriculum in leadership, from bachelor’s to doctorate, founded the GLODNAS Leadership Institute and later the GLODNAS Higher Institute, and serves as Vice-President and Head of the Faculty of Leadership at Landmark International University. He is IAWPA Regional Director for ECCAS and a UN-IAWPA Eminent Peace Ambassador, a trainer in good governance and anti-corruption, and has served as an independent election observer.
- Years of experience
- 30+
- Organisations founded
- 14
- Books published
- 12
- Countries of activity
- ~50
Figures as stated in Dr Mbuagbor’s professional profile; not independently verified by NBP.
Fields of action
Where the work sits
Nation building
CEO
Nation Building Project; expert advice to government leaders.
Leadership, training, mentoring and coaching
Since 2005
GLODNAS, Landmark International University, One Africa Initiative Academy; executives and people in authority.
Governance, ethics and peace
Since 2009
International Governance Institute, FITCAM, IAWPA.
Economic development and investment
Since 2012
RENILA, RISE — Royal Investment and Services, GLICOM.
Current roles and mandates
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Nation Building Project
Chief Executive Officer
RISE — Royal Investment and Services
Regional Director for ECCAS
IAWPA
Eminent Peace Ambassador
UN-IAWPA
Chancellor, founder and proprietor
GLODNAS Higher Institute
Vice-President, Head of the Faculty of Leadership
Landmark International University
Mentor and Leadership Team member
One Africa Initiative
Consultant
Great Mind Foundation · Excellent Leadership Training Institute
African representative
Financial consortium in association with RENILA
Career progression
From trainer to nation builder
2001 — 2004
National President
United Student Fellowship
First national mandate, leading a student movement.
2005 — 2009
Project Director and founder
Shamah Organisation · GLODNAS
Project direction (2005); founded GLODNAS (2006) and its Leadership Institute (2008).
Since 2010
Vice-President, Head of Faculty
Landmark International University
Faculty of Leadership; designed the bachelor-to-doctorate curriculum.
2019
Chancellor and founder
GLODNAS Higher Institute
“The University of Change”.
2020 — present
Regional Director for ECCAS
IAWPA
Peace diplomacy and reconciliation across Central Africa.
Present
Founder and CEO
Nation Building Project
The priority of the current mission.
Institutions founded
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Nation Building Project
Founder and CEO
Flagship project to build nations — the priority of the current mission.
2006
Global Development Network Association (GLODNAS)
Founder and President
International sustainable capacity development association — the foundation of the entire career.
2008
GLODNAS Leadership Institute
Founder and President
Leadership training institute; organiser of local, regional and national seminars.
2010
The Leadership Program
Designer
University curriculum from bachelor’s to doctorate, in three concentrations: Leadership and Globalisation, Organisational Leadership, and Human Resource Development.
2012
Royal Investment and Services (RISE)
Founder and CEO
Investment and services company.
2013
Global Investment Companies (GLICOM)
Co-founder and CEO
Investment company.
2019
GLODNAS Higher Institute — “The University of Change”
Founder, proprietor and Chancellor
Higher education institution; the culmination of thirteen years of leadership training.
Economic development
Nation building, financing and structural projects
Leadership that does not stop at the training room: projects of national scale in Cameroon, and investment missions carried out at the request of heads of state.
Douala · Cameroon · since 2015
Madiba City
Initiated the financing of the Madiba City project in Douala.
National · Cameroon · ongoing
University housing
Initiated the financing of a national university housing project, among other ongoing projects.
Tanzania · Zimbabwe
Investment missions
Led a team to Tanzania and Zimbabwe, at the presidents’ request, for financial investments in both countries.
Solidarity finance
The Winners Club — now National Development Credit
Founding member and administrative consultant to a club financing the micro-projects of its 500 members; also a founding member of Microfinance National Credit Development and of the Young Leaders Network for Development in Africa, and Co-CEO of an international business consultancy.
Governance, ethics and election observation
2011, 2013
Election observation
Independent supervisor of the presidential election (2011) and the dual municipal and legislative elections (2013), Yaoundé — International Governance Institute, FITCAM.
2009 — 2011
Anti-corruption training
Good governance, ethics and anti-corruption for anti-corruption sub-commissions: lecturers, staff and students of the University of Buea, and lecturers and staff of the University of Siantou, Yaoundé.
2011
Commonwealth seminar, Yaoundé
Invited to discuss the role of the Commonwealth in developing countries.
2010
Global Leadership Conference, Yaoundé
Facilitator alongside more than 24 speakers — senators, ministers, professors, international business people and financial consultants.
2012 — 2013
AFECAM — Academic Forum Cameroon
Facilitation on personal development, youth economic empowerment and national transformation.
Networks
Youth Development and Peace Network
Member of the YDP Network of Organisations, World Bank Cameroon.
Education
Degrees and training
Human Rights and Security
Pan-African Institute
Ongoing
Diploma — Economic Development
Weitz Center for Development Studies, Rehovot (Israel)
2013
Doctorate — Science of Leadership
Biltmore University, Phoenix (Arizona, USA)
2009 — 2011
Master’s — Science of Leadership
Biltmore University, Phoenix (Arizona, USA)
2008
Bachelor’s — Linguistics
University of Yaoundé I
2005 — 2008
Four-month Project Development Programme
GLODNAS Institute
2008
Business Management
Nehemiah Project, Yaoundé / USA
2006 — 2007
Leadership diplomas and certificates
Sonlife Africa · International Leadership Institute · Young Leaders Academy
2005 — 2007
Teaching and publications
Teaching and writing leadership
Landmark International University
2009 — present
Biltmore University — affiliate campuses, Douala and Yaoundé
2009 — present
GLODNAS Leadership Institute
2008 — present
Excellent Leadership Training Institute
2007 — present
Young Leaders Academy
2007 — 2009
Published books — selection
- If There Will Be a Change
- Effective Leadership
- Fulfilling Purpose, Making Millions
- Decoding Your Purpose
- Setting Priorities
- Dare to Fulfil Your Dreams
- The Principles of Life
- Understanding Leadership Functioning
Areas of expertise
Geographic footprint
Activity in some 50 countries, including the above.
Languages
- English
- Excellent — read, spoken, written
- French
- Fair — read, spoken, written
The thread running through this career is not a position but a conviction: to raise leaders able to serve their nation, from the seminar room to the institutions they build.
Beyond the Chief Executive, individual leadership profiles are not published here yet. Naming people before their appointments are confirmed would misrepresent the organisation to the governments and institutions it seeks to work with — precisely the kind of claim this platform refuses to make. What is published is the accountability structure: which function owns which decisions.
This is not a placeholder awaiting better news. A development platform is judged on whether its claims survive checking, and the first claim anyone checks is who is behind it. An organisation chart populated with advisers, associates and people in discussion reads well and collapses on the first phone call. The structure below is what exists today: the functions, what each may decide, and — the part that actually constrains anyone — what each is barred from deciding.
How an appointment gets published
Four conditions, all of them, before a name appears
Stated in advance so that the absence of names is legible as a rule being followed rather than as information being withheld.
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Appointment confirmed
A signed engagement exists between the individual and NBP. An expression of interest, an advisory conversation or a letter of intent is none of these things.
02
Function assigned
The appointment maps onto one of the functions below, so a reader can see which decisions the person actually holds rather than inferring it from a job title.
03
Interests declared
Directorships, shareholdings and prior engagements relevant to the sectors the function touches are recorded with Assurance before publication, not after a question is asked.
04
Consent given
The individual has agreed to what is published about them. Personal data is withheld by default under the same transparency rule that publishes project status.
Accountability
Eight functions, and the limits on each
The right-hand column is the one that constrains anybody. Almost every failure of integrity in project development is a function marking its own homework — preparation deciding it is ready, investment deciding what may be claimed, delivery deciding whether delivery went well.
Strategy & Diagnosis
Appointment pending
Maintains the diagnosis and the sector strategies derived from it.
Decides
Which constraint binds in a sector, and therefore what should be sequenced first.
Cannot decide
Advance a project up the readiness ladder. Strategic importance is not evidence, and a priority is not a feasibility study.
Project Preparation
Appointment pending
Takes concepts through the readiness ladder and holds the evidence at each step.
Decides
Whether the evidence a rung requires exists, and what work is outstanding.
Cannot decide
Classify its own output as investment-ready. That classification is Assurance’s, precisely because Preparation has an interest in the answer.
Commercial Structuring
Appointment pending
Determines delivery, ownership, risk allocation and financing structure.
Decides
Who carries which risk, and on what terms a partnership would be viable.
Cannot decide
Commit a public authority to anything. It proposes structures; the authority with the mandate approves them.
Investment
Appointment pending
Records mandates, prepares opportunities and manages expressions of interest.
Decides
Which prepared opportunities match a recorded mandate, and why.
Cannot decide
Publish a figure, a return or a participation that Assurance has not confirmed against a source. Matching is discovery, never advice.
Delivery
Appointment pending
Supports procurement, construction oversight and commissioning.
Decides
Whether a milestone has been met against its contracted definition.
Cannot decide
Change a milestone definition after the fact. A baseline that moves to meet performance is not a baseline.
Impact & Measurement
Appointment pending
Defines indicators, holds baselines and reports outcomes against them.
Decides
What is measured, how, and against which verification source.
Cannot decide
Report an outcome without naming who verified it. An unattributed indicator is an assertion.
Technology
Appointment pending
Operates the registry, portals and interoperability infrastructure.
Decides
How records are stored, versioned, audited and made available.
Cannot decide
Alter a record’s content. It runs the ledger; it does not write the entries, and the audit chain exists so that this is checkable rather than promised.
Assurance & Compliance
Appointment pending
Reviews claims, data confidence classifications and conflicts of interest.
Decides
Whether a claim may be published, and at what confidence level.
Cannot decide
Prepare, structure or market the projects it reviews. A reviewer with delivery targets is not a reviewer.