Akpan Hogan Ekpo

**Akpan Hogan Ekpo,** (an haife shi 26 Yuni 1954)  masanin tattalin arziki ne kuma farfesa . A halin yanzu Farfesa ne a fannin tattalin arziki da manufofin jama'a a jami'ar Uyo ta jihar Akwa Ibom ta Najeriya . Ekpo kuma shine Shugaban Gidauniyar Bincike da Koyarwa Tattalin Arziki (FERT) a Legas, Najeriya .  Ya kasance Darakta Janar na Cibiyar Kula da Kudi da Tattalin Arziki ta Afirka ta Yamma (WAIFEM) da ke Legas, Najeriya daga Mayun shekarar 2009 zuwa watan Disambar shekara ta 2018.  Tsohon mataimakin shugaban jami'ar Uyo ne a jihar Akwa Ibom ta Najeriya . Ekpo kuma tsohon Darakta ne a babban bankin Najeriya
## Rayuwar farko
An haifi Akpan Hogan Ekpo a Lagos, Nigeria ga Hogan Ekpo Etuknwa (1917-1997) wanda dan sanda ne kuma Deaconess Affiong Harrison Hogan Ekpo (née Udosen) (1936-2019). Shi ne babba a cikin yara hudu. Asalin Ekpo ya fito ne daga Ikot Obio Eka a karamar hukumar Etinan a jihar Akwa Ibom a Najeriya . Ekpo ya halarci makarantar firamare ta Anglican Isoko, Marine Beach, Apapa, Legas daga shekarar 1959 zuwa shekara ta 1965.  Daga 1965 zuwa 1970 ya halarci United Christian Secondary School, Bombay Crescent, Apapa, Legas .  Bayan kammala karatunsa na sakandare, Ekpo ya samu tallafin karatu daga gwamnatin tarayyar Najeriya don halartar jami'a a kasar Amurka .
## Sana'a
Ekpo ya halarci babbar jami’ar Howard da ke Washington, DC inda ya samu digiri na farko a fannin fasaha da kuma digiri na biyu a fannin tattalin arziki a shekarar 1976 da kuma shekarar 1978.  Ya kuma halarci Jami'ar Arewa maso yamma, Evanston, Illinois a ƙarƙashin lambar yabo ta Ƙungiyar Tattalin Arziki ta Amurka a shekarar 1975. A 1983, ya sami digiri na uku a fannin tattalin arziki daga Jami'ar Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Ekpo ya karantar a Jami'ar Noma da Fasaha ta North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina daga shekarar 1981 zuwa 1983. Ya dawo Najeriya a shekarar 1983. Daga shekarar 1983 zuwa shekara ta 1989 ya kasance malami a Jami'ar Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria inda ya yi sauri ya zama babban malami a cikin shekara ta 1987.  Daga shekarar 1990 zuwa 1992, Ekpo malami ne mai ziyara, Sashen Tattalin Arziki, Jami'ar Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe .  Ya kasance babban farfesa kuma shugaban Sashen Tattalin Arziki na Jami'ar Abuja, Abuja, Najeriya daga Janairu zuwa Yuli, 1992.  A watan Fabrairu 1992, ya zama Farfesa, Sashen Nazarin Tattalin Arziki, Jami'ar Abuja

Ekpo ya zama shugaban Faculty of Management Sciences na jami’ar a watan Yulin shekarar 1992. A watan Satumba na 1994, Ekpo ya koma jiharsa ta Akwa Ibom inda ya zama shugaban sashen nazarin tattalin arziki a jami'ar Uyo, Uyo . A 1997 ya zama Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences.  A shekarar 1999 aka nada shi mataimakin shugaban jami’ar Uyo.  An nada shi mataimakin shugaban jami’ar Uyo a watan Mayun shekarar 2000. Ya riƙe wannan mukamin har zuwa ranar 24 ga Mayu, 2005.  A watan Mayun shekarar 2009, an nada shi Babban Darakta na Cibiyar Kula da Kuɗi da Tattalin Arziki ta Afirka ta Yamma (WAIFEM) da ke Legas, Najeriya. Ekpo ya riƙe wannan muƙamin har zuwa Disambar shekara ta 2018.

## Rayuwar sirri
Yayin da yake halartar Jami'ar Howard, Ekpo ya sadu da Njeri Mbaka, wani abokin karatun Howard daga Kenya . Sun yi aure sama da shekaru 45. Suna da ‘ya’ya hudu da jikoki goma.

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