Board of Directors
Dr. Mathias Mbah
Dr. Mathias Mbah is Dean of the Business School and Professor of Management Information Systems at Bowie State University in Maryland. He also oversees the University's extension program in collaboration with academic institutions in Britain, Germany, Greece and Brazil, and has organized professional development training programs for students and mid-career officials in Brazil and Egypt. Prior to becoming Dean, Dr. Mbah served as Bowie State University's Director of the Graduate Program in Management Information Systems. He has authored numerous research articles and publications on information technology and economics.
Dr. Mbah is a member of the University System of Maryland's Business Education Council and was instrumental in the Maryland Commission of Minority Transportation Organizations' membership drive, serving as coordinator of new initiatives and keynote speaker.
In 1997, led a successful fundraising effort to build a surgical room at Batibo hospital in North West Cameroon — scholarship in service of community.
In 1994, on the basis of a national selection within Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Dr. Mbah was named faculty fellow and worked on the Coastal Area Grouping research project, developing a computational model to improve median housing cost estimates for the United States Department of Defense.
Dr. Mbah is an active member of the Cameroonian community in the United States. He received a B.S. in Management, M.A. in Economics and M.S. in Management Information Systems from Watson School of Technology at SUNY Binghamton, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Howard University, Washington, DC. Dr. Mbah and his wife, Delores, are the parents of one daughter and two sons.
Board Members
The Fomunyoh Foundation works to improve the well-being of Cameroonian people and strengthen democratic institutions and human rights in Cameroon.