Dr. Okey Anueyiagu was born in Kano, Nigeria. He graduated, with honours, from the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka, studied and earned post graduate degrees in Political Science and Economics from the University of Rochester, New York and Fordham University, New York.
He was a pioneer staff member of the old Anambra State University of Technology. Dr. Anueyiagu is a teacher, an entrepreneur, a philanthropist and activist, art collector, humanist, and has distinguished himself in various endeavours of life.
He has for over three decades promoted various ventures in Oil and Gas, Agriculture, Telecommunications, Construction, Manufacturing and Industrialization; and has sponsored the promotion of art and culture across continents.