Austin Tam-George
Austin Tam-George is an academic who served as the Rivers State Commissioner of Information and Communications from 21 December 2015 to 23 June 2017 when he voluntarily resigned from his post in Governor Wike's Cabinet. Before his appointment, Tam-George was the executive director of the Institute of Communication and Corporate Studies. Education. Tam-George received his PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and attended the IESE Business School in Barcelona, where he studied communication and institutional leadership. Career. As an academic, he taught at Pan-African University in Nigeria and at  University of Cape Town where he was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow. In 2008, he worked as research consultant to the New Partnership for Africa’s Development in its good governance monitoring projects across Africa. Commissioner of Information and Communications. On 9 December 2015, the House of Assembly voted unanimously to confirm Tam-George as Governor Wike's choice to succeed Ibim Semenitari as the Commissioner of Information and Communications. On 18 December 2015, he was officially sworn into office.