Mr. D.V.G Edwin is the Group Vice President, Oil & Gas and Fertiliser of the Dangote Group. He started his career in 1978 and he progressed to the level of Managing Director in 1989, in India.

During his career in India in Industrial Management, his areas of focus were industrial engineering, cost reduction, human capital management, general management, and project management.

He had executed industrial projects funded by the World Bank. Mr. Edwin joined the company in 1992 as a General Manager and was promoted to Group General Manager in 1994 and Executive Director (Projects) in 1998.

In 2000, he became the Executive Director (Industries and Projects), with responsibility for supervising all the plants in the Group including the sugar refinery, cement terminal, salt plant, flour mills, pasta plant, packaging materials plant and textile mills.

In 2002, he was moved to the position of Executive Director (Business Development) to oversee all the new projects. He was the Managing Director/CEO of Obajana Cement Plc from 2004 to 2006. He was formerly the Group Managing Director / CEO of Dangote Cement Plc prior to being appointed to his current position.

Mr. D.V.G Edwin holds a graduate and master’s degree in engineering from the Madras University in India and he is also a Chartered Engineer. He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IITM, Holland.