Dr. Obie Pearce is the Dean of Chiist University’s School of Leadership (and Vice Chancellor of the Chiist University). A hardworking and self-motivated individual with a wide range of experience in management and the teaching profession, she is superbly posited to this post.

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Her academic qualifications are just as impressive.

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She obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in History (Major) with a Concentration in Business Management at Oakland University, Rochester Michigan, U.S.A. This was followed by a Master of Arts degree in Social Anthropology from SOAS – University of London, a doctorate in Social Anthropology and a PhD in Natural African Theology from the Godian Academy in Michigan, USA. Along with these were other qualifications of Excellence.

 

Dr. Pearce has over 13 years’ experience in both personnel and budgetary management at corporate level, an experience that stood her in good stead when she branched out as a Sole Proprietor and Managing Director of a chain of food and catering company in the United Kingdom. She oversaw operations that exceeded operational and financial forecasts to yield

unprecedented profits to stakeholders and the business concern.

 

She has conducted lectures in seminars for doctoral candidates on African History and Religious Cultures at various universities including a stint at Oakland University, Rochester Michigan. She conducted and taught Math, English language, and African History at Adult Education centers and institutions over the years in the USA.

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An author and writer of several academic essays, she also, under the pen name of ‘Chi-chi’, was a contributing Features and Arts writer for NewsWatch in London, an African Lifestyle and Social investigative magazine. She has edited and published a magazine for a Women’s Well-being Group.

 

She is also active in the political arena within her country of origin having held offices within Political Parties therein, some with affiliations in the United Kingdom and Spain.