Senator Lee Maeba was ranking senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He was for seven years the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources Upstream and was also Chairman, Senate Joint Committee on the Petroleum Industry Bill. During his tenure in the Senate, he was a member of the African Union Pan African Parliament based in Midrand, South Africa and Member, Parliamentary Network on World Bank based in Paris, France.

Lee Maeba is a graduate of Petro-Chemical Engineering from the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port-Harcourt and holds a Certificate in World Petroleum Fiscal Arrangements. He has extensive drilling experience beginning from his career as a driller in Santa Fe Drilling Corporation. He left Santa Fe to set up P.E. BEMA Limited in 1996 and New Tigerhead Limited. He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers and the Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers. He is also a fellow of the Nigerian Society of Cost and Appraisal Engineers and active member of Society of Petroleum Engineer (SPE)

Senator Maeba is acknowledged throughout Nigeria as a champion of Nigerian content in the Petroleum industry; a defender of the interest of oil producing communities, and a nationalist and promoter of the Nigerian enterprise. He is the sole sponsor of the landmark Nigeria Oil and Gas Industry Content Development Act, a legislation that has changed the face of the Nigerian Oil and Gas industry.

His book “Benefits of the Nigerian Oil and Gas and Industry Gas Industry Content Development Act” is a resource material on local content in the Nigerian oil and gas industry. A multiple award winner including Nigeria Content Development Award (2010); PETAN Local Content Recognition Award (2010); Champion of Local Content by the Nigerian Association of Engineering Craftsmen (2010) and Nigerian International Youth Award (2009), he was widely described by international media as the ‘most influential energy lawmaker in Nigeria. Senator Lee Maeba is renowned philanthropist and President of the Senator Lee Maeba Foundation. His life philosophy and the root of his humanitarian orientation is chronicled in his autobiography – Against All Odds.