Peter Katjavivi

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Peter Katjavivi (1976)

Peter Hitjitevi Katjavivi (born May 12, 1941 in Okahandja , South West Africa , today Namibia ) is a Namibian political scientist , politician and former ambassador of the Republic of Namibia to Germany . He has been Parliamentary President of the Namibian National Assembly since March 20, 2015 and was appointed Chancellor of the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) in October 2016.

Life

Peter Katjavivi was born in Okahandja (then South West Africa ) in 1941 and initially attended a primary school in Windhoek , then the Augustineum in Okahandja (1960/61) and the Government College in Umuahia , Nigeria (1963–1966). In 1966/67 he began studying history, law and political science at the University of Dar es Salaam , Tanzania, which he completed in 1980 at the University of Warwick , England with a master's thesis on political sociology in Namibia. Katjavivi has been a member of SWAPO since the 1960s and was the founder and head of the SWAPO office in London from 1968 to 1979. In 1986 he earned a doctorate (DPhil) at St Antony's College of Oxford University .

In 1989 he became a member of the Constituent Assembly of Namibia . From 1992 to 2003 he was Vice Chancellor of the University of Namibia , where he was instrumental in founding it. Katjavivi was and is a member of numerous national and international educational, cultural and research organizations, including a member of the Executive Council of UNESCO (1993–1997), Chairman of the Council for National Monuments (1992–2000), today Council for National Heritage and Chairman of the Namibia Economic Policy Research Unit (since 1990). In 2003 he became Namibian Ambassador to the European Union in Brussels and in 2006 Ambassador to Berlin. Since 2008 he has headed the National Planning Commission.

Katjavivi is married and has five children. In addition to his native Otjiherero , he speaks five other languages.

Awards

Publications

  • The Road to Namibian Independence , Gamsberg-Macmillan, Windhoek,
  • Church and Liberation in Namibia , Zwan Publications, London, 1989
  • A History of Resistance in Namibia , James Currey, London, 1988

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Peter H. Katjavivi, former Ambassador of Namibia in Germany, becomes President of Parliament , press release of the Embassy of the Republic of Namibia in the Federal Republic of Germany
  2. ↑ Katjavivi appointed Chancellor , press release on the NUST website of October 14, 2016
  3. ↑ The intellectual liberation struggle hero: Professor Peter Katjavivi , press release on newera.com from June 20, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Katjavivi, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Katjavivi, Peter Hitjitevi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Namibian political scientist, politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Okahandja