Mr. Chuks Akamadu was born on September 8, 1976 in Umuahia, present-day Abia State of Nigeria. He attended Government Secondary School Owerri. He is a 2002 Law graduate of the University of Lagos with over twenty years post-call experience as an outstanding intellectual property lawyer. He holds two Post-graduate Diplomas in Tourism Management and Cultural Administration from National Institute for Hospitality and Tourism (NIHOTOUR) and National Institute for Cultural Orientation (NICO) respectively, with a Masters in Cultural Policy and Management from Nasarawa State University. He also studied Corporate Governance and Excellence in Management of Public Enterprises at International Management Institute (IMI), New Delhi, India. Mr. Akamadu is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) and a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC). He is also chartered in Public Relations and enjoys full membership status in the following Professional Associations: Institute of Directors (IoD) Nigeria; Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM); Institute for Tourism Professionals of Nigeria (ITPN), National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria (NIMN) as well as Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), where he is an Associate member.

His active engagement in the culture-tourism sector has spanned more than two decades. He was appointed head of media and publicity of the Performing Musicians Employers’ Association of Nigeria (PMAN) in 2004 and
was elevated to function as general secretary in 2005. He later had a stint with 360 Entertainment Limited, in 2006, as General Manager, from where he proceeded to set up, in 2008, Afrocultour Limited – an organization wholly committed to mainstreaming culture and tourism into the economy.

As Managing Director of Afrocultour Limited, he midwifed Songs of Nigeria Festival (SONIFES) – a foremost cultural fiesta in Nigeria. He did this with the endorsement of and in partnership with the Federal Ministries of Culture Tourism and National Orientation and Information and Communication (as they were then known). Afrocultour Limited, in 2020, with his robust idea, initiated the Nigerian Entertainment and Economic Roundtable in partnership with Federal Ministry of Information and Culture, Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning and the Lagos State Government. The Roundtable was conceived to be an annual policy dialogue and investment summit for policy makers, creative and tourism industry practitioners, investors, scholars and other key stakeholders. He is at present leading cultour stakeholders across the continent to stage the maiden edition of Africa Tourism and Creative Economy Expo.

Mr. Akamadu had the rare honour of being invited by the Federal Government of Nigeria to serve as a member of National Mirror Committee on Social Responsibility Standards – as the sole representative of the entertainment industry, in 2005. He was also the only private sector member of the 19-man Presidential Committee on Nigeria’s Centenary Celebrations, having him self authored the Concept Note of the commemorative project in 2012 in his capacity as Afrocultour Managing Director. He is a distinguished industry leader and practitioner on the African continent. As a cultural scholar and tourism expert, Mr. Akamadu has written extensively on the imperative of mainstreaming cultour into the economy in various international academic journals and reputable print media, and also has to his credit the book titled “Harnessing Cultour for Economic Growth” which was published in 2023.