Ibrahim Gambari

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Ibrahim Agboola Gambari (* 24. November 1944 in Ilorin ) is a Nigerian diplomat and former Under Secretary General of the United Nations for Political Affairs. He was appointed to this capacity on June 10, 2005. Since 1999 he has been a member of the United Nations Secretariat.

Educational pathway and academic-political career

Gambari attended Kings College in Lagos and the London School of Economics and Political Science , from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in political science . His specialty was international relations. He received his MA ( Master of Arts ) degree in 1970 and his doctorate ( Ph.D. ) in 1974 from Columbia University in New York . From 1969 to 1974 he taught at the City University of New York and the State University of New York (Albany) . After his return to Nigeria he taught at the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria , where he finally became a professor in 1983. In October 1983 he was appointed executive director of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs until he was appointed Nigerian Foreign Minister in December 1983 under the government of military dictator Muhammadu Buhari . After Buhari was overthrown in August 1985, he returned to Ahmadu Bello University. From 1986 to 1989 he was visiting professor at the Graduate School of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University (in Washington), Georgetown University and Howard University . He was also visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington and at the center of the Rockefeller Foundation in Italy.

Career at the United Nations

From January 1990 to October 1999, Gambari represented his home country Nigeria at the United Nations as permanent representative. In this capacity he participated in the 44th to 54th General Assemblies of the United Nations as a member of the Nigerian Mission in uninterrupted succession. He served as Chairman of the UN Security Council on two occasions (in May 1994 and October 1995). He took part in a leading position in several United Nations missions dealing with apartheid in South Africa . He was a member of the United Nations Special Committee on Peace Operations (1990–1999). From 1993 to 1999 he was a member of the UNITAR Board of Trustees . From January to December 1999 he also served as President of the Executive Committee of UNICEF .

Gambari has been the UN Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General for Iraq since 2007 . On his behalf, he visited Myanmar in February 2009.

Publications

  • The new partnership for African development. Challenges and progress in organizing international support , Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos 2004, ISBN 9780020462 .
  • Theory and Reality in Foreign Policy Making. Nigeria after the Second Republic , Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, NJ, 1990, ISBN 0-391-03603-3 .
  • Comparative Study Of Regional Economic Integration: The Case of ECOWAS , Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, NJ, 1991, ISBN 0-391-03696-3 .
  • Nigeria at the United Nations Security Council , Sungai, Trenton, NJ, 1998, ISBN 1889218065 .
  • Trend in Nigerian foreign policy during Major-General Muhammadu Buhari ’s administration , Bureau of the Minister, Ministry of External Affairs, Lagos, around 1984.
  • Party politics and foreign policy. Nigeria under the First Republic , Ahmadu Bello University Press, Zaria / Nigeria 1980.
  • The domestic politics of major foreign policy issues in Nigeria Diss. Columbia University, 1974.

Planned publications:

  • Africa's Security Questions at the End of the 20th Century into the New Millennium
  • The United Nations in a changing World Order: an African Perspective .

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personal data
SURNAME Gambari, Ibrahim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gambari, Ibrahim Agboola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian diplomat, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Ilorin