Udoma Udo Udoma CON was born on the 26th February 1954 (age 67) and he is the founding partner of Udo Udoma & Belo Osagie - one of Nigeria's oldest and largest commercial law firm.He was Nigeria's Minister of Budget and National Planning and Senator for the Akwa-Ibom South constituency.

Udoma attended Corona School, Ikoyi, Lagos from 1962 to 1964 and Nakasoro Primary School, Kampala, Uganda from 1964 to 1965. He attended King's College, Lagos for his secondary education from 1966 to 1972 and after his A levels proceeded to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, England where he obtained a B.A. (Law) degree in 1976 and a B.C.L. degree in jurisprudence in 1977. He was called to the Nigerian Bar Association in 1978, after obtaining a B.L. degree at the Nigerian Law School.

He was elected Senator for the Akwa-Ibom South constituency of Akwa-Ibom State, Nigeria at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic, running on the People's Democratic Party (PDP) platform. He took office on 29 May 1999. He was reelected in April 2003, again running on the PDP platform. After taking his seat in the Senate in June 1999, he was appointed to committees on Public Accounts, Judiciary, Banking & Currency, Science & technology, Privatization and Drug & Narcotics (vice chairman). He was appointed the Minister of Budget and Planning by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015, and he served in this role until 2019.