Mohamed Ibn Chambas
Mohamed Ibn Chambas (born December 7, 1950 in Ghana ) is a leading lawyer, diplomat and politician in Ghana. From 2010 to 2015 he was Secretary General of the ACP group of countries . By February 2010 was Mohamed Ibn Chambas ECOWAS Executive Secretary ( Executive Secretary ).
education
Dr. Ibn Chambas attended the Mfantsipim School in Cape Coast and later the state secondary school in Tamale . He completed his political science studies at the University of Ghana in Legon, a district of Accra , from which he graduated in 1973 with a bachelor's degree. Ibn Chambas moved to Cornell University in the USA, from which he was awarded his master's degree in 1977 and his doctorate in 1980. He received his law degree from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Mohamed Ibn Chambas is authorized to practice as a lawyer in Ghana and Ohio State, USA.
Career as an academic and lawyer
Ibn Chambas began his professional activity in the USA as a teacher at Oberlin College in Ohio. He later practiced law in Cleveland for the law firm Forbes, Forbes and Teamor .
Career as a politician and diplomat
Ibn Chambas returned to Ghana in the 1980s and became Deputy Foreign Secretary of Ghana in 1987 . In the parliamentary elections in December 1992, under the country's fourth constitution, which came into force at the time , Chambas stood as a candidate for the Bimilla constituency for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) party and entered the Ghanaian parliament.
In his first year as a member of parliament, he became the first deputy speaker of parliament for the 1993–1994 term. Immediately afterwards he was appointed Vice Secretary of State by then President Jerry Rawlings . He held this post until April 1997, when, at Rawlings' instigation, he moved to the position of Deputy Minister for Higher Education. Ibn Chambas exercised this activity until the change of political power in the elections in 2000. Rawlings ceded his office to John Agyekum Kufuor . Ibn Chambas was then elected General Secretary of ECOWAS on December 21, 2001 .
In the 1996 elections, Ibn Chambas failed to win again in his constituency. However, he won in the elections on December 7, 2000, on his fiftieth birthday again for the NDC, the parliamentary seat of the constituency of Bimilla. Ibn Chambas works as a member of parliament mainly in the parliamentary committee for external affairs and in the exclusion for education.
Mohamed Ibn Chambas took part in a variety of international meetings, state visits and assemblies. He himself led the Ghanaian delegation to the UN General Assembly, various meetings of ministers in the OAU and ECOWAS .
Since 2014 he has been the UN Special Envoy and Head of UNOWAS , the United Nations Office for West Africa .
Others
Mohamed Ibn Chambas is the first African to be elected to the Cornell University Council at Cornell University. Ibn Chambas completed his first term on the University Council between 1997 and 2001. In 2003 he was re-elected for a further four-year term. Chambas was awarded the second highest order in Ghana, the Order of the Volta .
Footnotes
- ↑ Africa | United Nations Secretary-General. Retrieved August 20, 2017 .
- ↑ www.sec.ecowas.int ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
See also
Web links
- Ghanaweb short curriculum vitae with photo, (engl.)
- ECOWAS website , with photo, engl.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chambas, Mohamed Ibn |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ghanaian lawyer, diplomat and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ghana |