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Kennedy Uwaifiokun Uwagboe attended Western Boys High School, Benin for his secondary school education and topped it by being an alumnus of the famous Edo College in Benin City—for his Higher School Certificate.

Between 1983 and 1987, he was at University of Benin(UNIBEN) where he obtained B.ED (English). And he went back to UNIBEN in 1992 to read law, graduating in 1996 with a Bachelor of Law degree (LL.B).

Between 1997 and 1998, he attended the Nigeria Law School where he obtained Barrister at Law (BL). And he obtained another Barrister at Law degree from Sierra Leone Law School, Freetown in 2007.

Uwagboe has been Company Secretary and Executive Director of Jupiter Asset Management Ltd since July 2009. He is also on the Board of Gartmore Investments Ltd.

Since 2015, he has been a Non-Executive Director at the following companies:  Sapele Power Limited; Euro Afric Utilities Limited; and Mid Western Oil & Gas Limited.

Uwagboe is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association; Sierra Leone Bar Association; International Bar Association; Institute of Directors Nigeria; Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliator; and Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

He has attended training and capacity building programmes at Columbia Business School, New York {Accounting for the Non-Financial Executive}; Houston Law Centre {International Commercial Arbitration}; and Harvard Business School, Boston MA, USA {Making Corporate Board More Effective.}