Uche Attoh served on the Industrial Arbitration Panel before joining the faculty. Appointed by the Federal Government, he presided over Tribunals handling trade disputes and labour-management conflicts under the Trade Disputes Act and other labour laws for eight years.
Prior to this, he spent more than a decade at GlaxoSmithKline Nigeria Plc, where he acted as Human Resources Director and Company Secretary for West and Central Africa. He played major roles in the company’s transformation efforts, leading the Legal and HR integration during the mergers of SmithKline Beecham with Sterling Health and later with GlaxoWellcome.
Before GSK, Uche was Director of Industrial Relations at the Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA). His international HR exposure came through ILO secondments and fellowships in the USA, UK, Ireland, Germany, Brazil, Norway, Kenya, and Ghana, enabling him to promote best practices through various national tripartite institutions.