Crispin Grey-Johnson

Crispin Grey- Johnson ( born December 7, 1946 in Banjul) was Minister of Foreign Affairs (English Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ) and higher education and research ministers of the West African state of Gambia.

Life

Crispin Grey -Johnson was born in 1946 in Banjul, his schooling, he began 1950. Later, he earned his bachelor 's degree in 1968 in political science and French at McGill University in Canada. In 1971 he received the Post- Graduate Certificate in Education at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom). The master 's degree in human resource development, he acquired in 1980 on the George Washington University in the United States.

From 1977 he worked for the Economic Commission for Africa ( Nations Economic Commission for Africa) ( ECA), an agency of the United Nations, until he left in 1990. He then worked as a High Commissioner and Ambassador to Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Brazil, Venezuela and Canada. Between 1997 and 1999 he was the Gambian Ambassador to the United States.

He then until 2007 was ambassador to the United Nations. On 8 February 2007 he was appointed by President Yahya Jammeh as higher education and research minister (English Secretary of State for Higher Education and Research ), the Jammeh had created retroactively as of January 1 to the Cabinet.

On 13 September 2007, Crispin Grey -Johnson 's new foreign minister, because predecessor Bala Garba - Jahumpa was employed in a diplomatic mission. He held the post until 19 March 2008 and it was from Omar Touray and assumed responsibility for higher education and research minister again from its predecessor Abdoulie Sallah.

On 4 February 2010 Grey -Johnson was replaced by Mamadou Tangara in office.

Grey -Johnson is married and has five children.