Crispin Gray-Johnson
Crispin Gray-Johnson (* 7. December 1946 in Bathurst, now Banjul ) was Foreign Minister ( English Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ) and higher education and research ministers of the West African country Gambia .
Life
Crispin Gray-Johnson was born in Bathurst (now Banjul) in 1946 and began school in 1950. He later earned his Bachelor's degree in Political Science and French in 1968 from McGill University in Canada . In 1971 he received the Post-Graduate Certificate in Education from the University of Oxford (United Kingdom). He received his Master's degree in human resource development from George Washington University in the United States in 1980 .
From 1977 he worked for the Economic Commission for Africa ( Nations Economic Commission for Africa ) (ECA), an organization of the United Nations until he left the 1990th He then worked as High Commissioner and Ambassador to Sierra Leone , the Ivory Coast , Liberia , Brazil , Venezuela and Canada. Between 1997 and 1999 he was the Gambian Ambassador to the United States.
He was then ambassador to the United Nations until 2007 . On February 8, 2007 he was appointed by President Yahya Jammeh as Secretary of State for Higher Education and Research ( English Secretary of State for Higher Education and Research ), which Jammeh had created retroactively to January 1, in the cabinet .
On September 13, 2007, Crispin Gray-Johnson became the new foreign minister because Bala Garba-Jahumpa was appointed to a diplomatic mission. He held the office until March 19, 2008 and handed it over to Omar Touray and took over the department of higher education and research minister again from his predecessor Abdoulie Sallah .
On February 4, 2010, Gray-Johnson was replaced by Mamadou Tangara in office.
Gray-Johnson is married with five children.
Individual evidence
- ^ Cabinet Reshuffled ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) The Daily Observer September 16, 2007
- ↑ Cabinet changes ( Memento of the original dated July 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Daily Observer (online) March 20, 2008
- ↑ NEW CABINET RESHUFFLE BRINGS FATOU MAS JOBE NJIE, SIX OTHERS, INTO POLE POSITIONS Today Newspaper of February 8, 2010
Web links
- UN Press Release POP / 927 - Commission on Population and Development (Thirty-Eighth Session)
- International Agency for Economic Development (IAED)
- Ambassador Crispin Gray-Johnson
- Crispin Gray-Johnson, Permanent Representative of the Republic of the Gambia to the UN, to Speak at Adelphi University
- Taiwan and The United Nations a spreech by his excellency Mr. Crispin Gray-Johnson ambassador and permanent representative of The Gambia to the United Nations at the international conference on the United Nations and Taiwan at the Yale Club of New York, 5th September 2003 (PDF File; 165 kB)
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Office newly created |
University and Research Minister of Gambia 2007 |
Abdoulie Sallah |
| Bala Garba-Jahumpa |
Foreign Minister of Gambia 2007-2008 |
Omar Touray |
| Abdoulie Sallah |
University and Research Minister of Gambia 2008– |
Mamadou Tangara |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gray-Johnson, Crispin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Gambian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Banjul |