FNIA); 2022 honorary award recipient, Colegio de Arquitectos de Bolivia Recipient of the 2016 Excellence Awards for Leadership IBI Group Team member, LEED Gold Award for South East Division Police Station Project in Edmonton 2018 Distinguished Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) Named: One of Canada’s Leadership and Innovation Visionaries -commemorating Canada’s 150th anniversary 2015 - American Institute of Architects Presidential Medal Recipient 2015 - Honoree, Royal Australian Institute of Architects; Red Deer Civic Yards; Villa Caritas; International Law Enforcement Academy; Repeatable Laboratory Design Framework for LabsCanada; International Law Enforcement Academy Gaborone Red Deer Civic Yards Botswana Police College Maun District Hospital Alberta at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Washington DC Alberta Legislature Centre Redevelopment Master Plan Samuel Óghalé Oboh (born March 27, 1971) is a Canadian architect, manager, leader,[1] former Vice President - Architecture[2] at AECOM Canada Architects Ltd - a Fortune 500 Company[2] and the 2015 President of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC).

Oboh, a 2024 recipient of the King Charles III Coronation Medal,[9][10][11] was elevated to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects at an investiture ceremony held in New York on June 22, 2018.

[25] His father, Johnson Oboh, was a mechanical engineering technician for a Swiss company - UTC whose work made them live in various parts of the country - Lagos, Maiduguri, and Yola, among other places.

[30][31] Following his graduation from the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria where he obtained his Master of Science degree in architecture in 1996 and the subsequent completion of his national youth service program in Katsina (near the border with Niger Republic), Oboh joined F&A Services - a design and construction firm - as a design architect, where he was part of the team responsible for the refurbishing of the Victoria Island-based Federal Palace Hotel, the site of the signing of Nigeria's Declaration of Independence.

[32][25] Shortly after in 1998, Oboh was appointed as an Adjunct Lecturer at the ML Sultan Technikon (now Durban University of Technology) teaching African Architecture.

Oboh become FMA's Resident Architect on the Botswana Police College project[33] in Otse and the International Law Enforcement Academy - which he led and designed (following the enactment of the project from a bilateral agreement signed on July 24, 2000[34] between the Festus Mogae - led Government of Botswana and the Government of the United States of America - under the Bill Clinton administration.

[39] Working closely with Peter Bull, Oboh was also IBI Group's Project Architect for the $118-million City of Red Deer Civic Yard (made up of a number of institutional, industrial-type buildings), constructed on a 28.1 hectares (69 acres) industrial site.

[40] Oboh and the IBI Group Team approached the Civic Yards Project with sustainability in mind - with three buildings on the site (the Administration Block, the Warehouse / stores / transit garages and the Vehicle car Wash have been designed to LEED standards.

[56][57][58][59][60] - including Canada and the United States, Brazil, London - England, Paris - France, Brussels - Belgium, Berlin - Germany, Singapore, Seoul - South Korea, Lahore - Pakistan, Tokyo - Japan, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne Australia, N'djamena - Chad, Lagos - Nigeria, Kampala - Uganda, Gaborone - Botswana, Maseru - Lesotho, and various cities in South Africa.

[61] In 2017, Oboh collaborated with Berlin-based architect Francis Kéré to lead the design of the proposed multimillion-dollar African Cultural Centre in Alberta – Canada.