Reynolds Bekinbo Dagogo-Jack, OFR (born 4 December 1957), popularly known as Beks, is a Nigerian civil engineer, technocrat and public servant. For over thirty years, Dagogo-Jack has been active in both the public and private sector, especially in areas of government/public administration and project management including engineering, construction and manufacturing.
On 5 September 2012, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan reconstituted the twin Presidential agencies instituted as special purpose vehicles to fast-track the implementation of the national electric power reform program: the Presidential Action Committee on Power (PACP) and the Presidential Task Force on Power (PTFP), appointing Dagogo-Jack to serve as Chairman of the PTFP and also a member of the PACP. Dagogo-Jack had been with the PTFP from its inception in June 2010, serving as a Senior Special Assistant to the President and also Senior Performance Monitor for the National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP). In this capacity, he led the special team that supervised governmental and private agencies managing over four hundred power infrastructure projects covering gas, generation, transmission and distribution projects.
On 29 September 2014, President Goodluck Jonathan conferred on him the prestigious Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR).
Education and personal life
Dagogo-Jack is from Abonnema, a riverine community in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State. He was born into the illustrious Dagogo-Jack family. His parents are Chief Karibi Jim Dagogo-Jack, Iju VIII of Abonnema & Mrs B. K. Dagogo-Jack. His elder brother, Chief Sumner Karibi Dagogo-Jack, was the former Nigerian Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, while his immediate older brother, Dr. Samuel Dagogo-Jack, a renowned US-based internist, was named 2013 Internal Medicine Physician of the Year by the United States National Medical Association.
Dagogo-Jack was educated in Nigeria at the University of Benin, graduating with distinctions in hydraulics and advanced structures with a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering in 1980. In 1992, he completed coursework for a master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He obtained his First School Leaving Certificate in 1969 from Bishop Crowther Memorial School, Abonnema, and his West African School Certificate in 1974 from Baptist High School, Port Harcourt, both in Rivers State, Nigeria.
Dagogo-Jack is a chartered Civil Engineer and registered to practice Engineering by COREN (Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria). He is also a Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE). He attended a host of advanced management and professional courses in both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston and George Washington University, Washington D.C.
He is married to Honorable Justice Harriba Dagogo-Jack of the Rivers State Judiciary. They have four kids and two grandchildren. His hobbies include golf, squash and books on political history and development.
Non-Profit Work
From 1999 to 2007, Dagogo-Jack was founding Chairman of the Center for Public Good, a grassroots non-governmental organisation; and in 2001, he was Convener and Chairman of the Group of Rivers Professionals (GRIPS). He has also awarded several scholarships to deserving students from the Akuku-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State.
Career
Downstream Oil and Gas
Between 1982 and 1989, Dagogo-Jack worked in the downstream petroleum industry, starting from Unipetrol (now Oando Plc) and ending with Elf Petroleum. Serving variously as District, Divisional, Operations Engineer and Manager, his work scope covered the full gamut of downstream petroleum business such as retail outlet development and maintenance, product supply and logistics, production of lubricants and general district sales management.
Public Service
Aviation
Dagogo-Jack served as the Special Assistant (Technical) to the Honourable Minister of Aviation (Alabo T. O. Graham-Douglas), from 1989 to 1992, and was directly involved in the development of the Nigerian airline license and liberalisation policy, the reform of the national aviation management agencies and the comprehensive rehabilitation of the then three Nigerian international airports (Lagos, Kano and Port-Harcourt), and served as a Director on the Board of the Nigeria Airports Authority (now Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria – FAAN).