A seasoned chartered surveyor, estate surveyor and valuer, business manager and transformational entrepreneur with varied professional and managerial experience spanning over 3 decades in the real estate industry, covering assets and project management, development and investment consulting and advisory services to clients in industry, financial services, oil & gas, government institutions and parastatals. Currently the 26th President of Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors & Valuers (NIESV). An accomplished Executive with a proven track record of driving growth and profitability in business entities with over 30 years of combined professional and executive leadership experience. Experienced in navigating complex local and international markets and delivering exceptional results. Victor holds and has held board appointments including, Penman Pension Ltd (now Tangerine Pensions), Board of Estate Surveyors and Valuers Registration Board of Nigeria, Institute of Directors and MRI Facilities Management Limited, amongst others. He is a Chartered Institute of Directors (CIoD) accredited Independent Director. He holds the position of the new Independent Non-Executive Director to the Board of NGX Real Estate Limited.

 Victor Alonge holds B.Sc. Estate Management from the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife Nigeria and the University of Reading, England. He also has MSc Degree in Property Asset Management, from Herriot Watt University, Edinburgh Scotland, and RICS/IMC Certificate in Management Consultancy.

Alonge worked briefly with London Borough of Ealing as a valuation officer before joining the professional firm of Willmotts Chartered Surveyors in London in 1999 as a general practice surveyor undertaking mainly valuations, property development and investment consultancy works. His diligence, hard work and competence were duly recognized and rewarded by the company culminating in his rapid promotion and eventual elevation as an Executive Director of the over 169-year-old property professional services company in December 2003. With that elevation, he became the first black person to attain the full board position in the first-generation real estate consultancy firm which was established in 1856.

Alonge managed the professional and investment services business of the firm, and in that role, handled the technical contents, management and delivery of a number of major valuations, property development, management and investment property consultancy works in the U.K, Spain, Germany and United States, on behalf of corporate and high net worth individual clients of the company.

Alonge resigned his employment with Willmotts in 2006 and returned to Nigeria and has since been the Senior Partner/CEO of Nelson Thorpe Alonge (Estate Surveyors & Valuers). He has, in that role, led the company’s delivery of outstanding real estate professional services to clientele that include banks, insurance companies, oil & gas companies, corporate organizations, international organizations, government institutions and asset management outfits. He is also the CEO of Willows Projects Limited- a multidisciplinary property development company that has delivered several multi-billion-naira landmark projects in the commercial and residential sectors of the Nigerian real estate industry that include the NDPHC Corporate Headquarters complex, the expansive Barumark Estate and Lakeside Estate, all in Abuja FCT. He is also the Chairman MRI Facilities Management Limited.

Alonge is a Fellow of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (FNIVS), a Registered Surveyor and Valuer (RSV), Fellow of The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS), an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (ACIArb), London, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Directors (F.CIoD).

He was Vice Chairman of the Estate Surveyors & Valuers Registration Board of Nigeria (ESVARBON) – the regulatory body for estate surveying and valuation profession in Nigeria and Chairman of its professional practice committee. In that role at the Board, he led the process that brought about the preparation and delivery of first ever Nigeria Valuation Standards, which effectively domesticated the International Valuation Standards (IVS. The publication of this national standards made Nigeria the first country in Africa to achieve this enviable professional status and it has in no small measure contributed to the domestication of the valuation standards and reporting requirements of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and the International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) in Nigeria.

Victor Alonge is the 26th President and Chairman of Council of Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors Valuers (NIESV) – the only recognized Valuation Professional Organization (VPO) in Nigeria. He holds the position of the new Independent Non-Executive Director to the Board of NGX Real Estate Limited. He was a non-executive director of Penman Pensions Limited (Now Tangerine Pensions) and meritoriously served as a member of Nigeria’s vision 20:2020. He is a recipient of ‘Outstanding Humanitarian Award’ of the United Nations Commission for the Status of Women (UNCSW) in recognition of his support for gender equality and African women advancement initiatives. He has attended several professional and general management courses mainly in Europe, USA and Africa. He is a Christian and a committed member of the Cherubim and Seraphim Movement Church Worldwide where he serves as a member of the Church Management Committee in addition to being the Special Adviser to the Spiritual Head of the church. He is happily married and blessed with children.