Milton Nathaniel Barnes

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Milton Nathaniel Barnes (born April 6, 1954 in Monrovia ) is a Liberian politician , financial expert and Liberia's ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations . He was Treasury Secretary in the Charles Taylor administration from 1999 to 2002 and took part in the 2005 presidential election as a candidate for the Liberian Destiny Party (LDP).

Life

Milton Nathaniel Barnes , a Liberian native of Monrovia, is the second of four children of Liberian civil servant Roland Barnes and Eudora Barnes , a teacher. He spent his childhood and youth in the port city of Harper on Cape Palmas . In 1972 he began to study economics at the University of West Africa in the capital Monrovia . This was followed by an internship at a Liberian bank. From 1975, Barnes lived in the United States , beginning with studying at Rider University in Lawrenceville , New Jersey . After completing his bachelor's degree (financial economics), he moved to Pace University in New York City in 1979 , where he earned a master's degree with a focus on finance and banking.

Barnes began his professional career with an American insurance company, working in offices in Des Moines and Philadelphia . He returned to Liberia in December 1979 and took over the company's property and casualty insurance branch in Monrovia. Immediately after the Doe coup in the summer of 1980, he left the country with his wife Dawn and worked for 14 years in the financial management department of a telecommunications company in Nashville .

In April 1998 Barnes returned to Liberia, where he was hired as a business analyst with the Treasury Department of the Taylor government. In March 1999 he was appointed General Director of the State Office for Social Security and Wellbeing (NASSCORP). The reforms he initiated proved highly effective and earned him further respect in the Taylor administration. Barnes was appointed Treasury Secretary in September and held that position until July 2002.

In the 2005 presidential election, he was a candidate for the Liberian Destiny Party (LDP), whose leadership he had taken over. In the first ballot on October 11, 2005, Barnes achieved with 9,325 votes only 1% in twelfth place in the ranking of all 22 candidates.

In May 2006, M. Nathaniel Barnes was appointed Ambassador to the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Liberia to the United Nations by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Milton Nathaniel Barnes: Liberia's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations. In: The Permanent Mission of the Republic of Liberia to the United Nations (online portal). Retrieved January 10, 2011 . (English)
  2. ^ Elections in Liberia (2005). In: African Elections Database. Retrieved January 10, 2011 . (English)
personal data
SURNAME Barnes, Milton Nathaniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barnes, Nathaniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Liberian politician and UN ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Monrovia