Ibrahim Gambari

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Dr. Ibrahim Agboola Gambari B.A., M.A., Ph.D, D.Hum.Litt., CFR (born on November 24, 1944 in Ilorin, Nigeria) is a Nigerian scholar and diplomat. He is current Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations (USG) for Department of Political Affairs (DPA). He was appointed on June 10, 2005 and assumed the post on July 1 of that year.

In November, 2006, Gambari undertook a mission to Myanmar for four days (November 9 - November 12) to encourage greater respect for human rights there. While in Myanmar, the USG first met with the junta leaders in the new administrative capital, Nay Pyi Taw where he held talks with Than Shwe and Soe Win. Later, on November 11, in Rangoon, he met with Nobel laureate and prisoner of conscience Aung San Suu Kyi. [1]. The USG had also traveled to Myanmar in May, 2006.

1 Biography
2 Education
3 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] United Nations career

In the 1990s, USG Gambari was a senior delegate of the Nigerian mission to the General Assembly. Later, Dr. Gambari became Permanent Representative of Nigeria. In 1999, he began working with the Secretariat. He had also served as Special Representative of the the UN Mission to Angola from September 2002 to February 2003. Previous to his appointed as USG, Gambari was Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser on Africa where he was responsible for promoting African development and New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). Twice he presided over the Security Council. He was president of the Special Committee Against Apartheid

[edit] Academia

Dr. Gambari began his teaching career in 1963 at City University of New York before working at University of Albany. Later, he taught at Ahmadu Bello University, in Zaria, Nigeria, the second largest university in Africa. From 1986-1989, the USG was Visiting Professor at three universities in Washington, D.C.: Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Georgetown University and Howard University. He has also been a Research Fellow at the Brookings_Institution also in Washington and a Resident Scholar at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center, the Rockefeller_Foundation-run center in Italy. He was accorded, honoris causa, the title of Doctor of Humane Letters (D.Hum.Litt.) from the University of Bridgeport. He is also a member of the John Hopkins University's Society of Scholars. He was decorated with the title of Commander of the Federal Republic (CFR) by the Government of Nigeria.

[edit] Works include

United Nations 21: Better Service, Better Value, Better Management, Progress Report of the Efficiency Board to the Secretary-General (1996) (co-authored with Rafeeuddin Ahmed, Jamsheed Marker, J. E. Connor and Jean-Claude Milleron) (ISBN: 0788173871)
Report of the Security Council mission to Rwanda'(UN Security Council mission chairman) (1995)
Theory and Reality in Foreign Policy Making: Nigeria After the Second Republic (1992) (ISBN: 0391037439)
Political and Comparative Dimensions of Regional Integration: The Case of Ecowas (1991) (ISBN: 0391036963)

List of recent speeches

[edit] Education

He attended King's College, Lagos. At the London School of Economics in received a bachelor's degree in political science. From 1970 to 1974, he studied at Columbia University, New York where he completed both his M.A. and his Ph.D in International Relations.

[edit] External links

Department of Political Affairs, United Nations Headquarters, Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari Under-Secretary-General/Special Adviser on Africa, New York, January, 2000 (biography)

Preceded by Sir Kieran Prendergast (UK)	Under-Secretary-General for United Nations Department of Political Affairs 2005–Present	Succeeded by Incumbent