Professor Florence Onyebuchi Orabueze, Ph.D., FCArb, FICMC, FISM, FiADRN, FiCMN, FNAL, is a distinguished scholar and academic leader in the Department of English and Literary Studies at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. She earned her degrees from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and Abia State University, Uturu, and is a certified teacher registered by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria. She was inducted as UN/IWAPA PEACE AMBASSADOR on 19th August, 2025, and awarded Fellow of English Scholars' Association of Nigeria (FESAN) on 16th September, 2025, and was elected ASUU-UNN Chairman on 10th September, 2025. Over the course of her career, she has established herself as an accomplished academic, researcher, and writer, publishing widely in reputable national and international journals, including impact factor–indexed outlets. Her scholarly contributions include three collections of poetry—The Return of Heart of Darkness and Other Poems, The Dawn of a New Day and Other Poems, and The Message of the Ayaka Masquerade and Other Poems—as well as a novel, Men Behind the Masks. She has also authored critical works such as Society, Women and Literature in Africa and The Creative Writer as a Human Rights Activist. In recognition of her academic contributions and mentorship, a festschrift of nearly 500 pages titled Perspectives on Language, Literature & Human Rights: Essays in Honour of Professor Florence Onyebuchi Orabueze was published in 2019. Professor Orabueze has held several key administrative and leadership positions within the University of Nigeria. She made history as the first female Director of the Institute of African Studies. She later served as Director of the University of Nigeria Bookshop Ltd. and Director of the University of Nigeria Press Ltd., under whose leadership the Press won the 2019 Best Legal Depositor Merit Award from the National Library of Nigeria. She is currently the Director of the Institute of Maritime Studies, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus. Beyond these roles, she has served on numerous departmental, faculty, and university committees, and played vital roles in selection and search committees for principal officers of the university, including Registrar, Bursar, and Vice-Chancellor. Her professional influence extends nationally. She has chaired and participated in accreditation panels of the Nigerian Universities Commission and served in several capacities for the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). In 2020, she was appointed General Coordinator for the Actualization of the Proposed Peaceland University of Education, Oji River, which was successfully licensed in 2023. That same year, she became Chairman of the Planning and Implementation Committee of the Proposed Ngozi Chukwugbo University, Ozubulu. Professor Orabueze has been recognized with numerous fellowships and professional honors. She is a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Chartered Arbitrators, the Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators, the Institute of Strategic Management of Nigeria, the Nigerian Academy of Letters, the Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution Development and Conflict Management, among others. She is also a foundation council member of the Institute of Alternative Dispute Resolution Development and Conflict Management of Nigeria. In 2019, she earned a Diploma Certificate in Management of Higher Education Institutes from the Galilee International Management Institute, Israel, and in 2023 she graduated from the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru (PSLC47). Through her research, publications, administrative service, and professional leadership, Professor Orabueze has demonstrated an enduring commitment to scholarship, institutional growth, and the promotion of ethical leadership and human rights in education and society.