Ibrahim Gambari

Ibrahim Agboola Gambari (* November 24, 1944 in Ilorin ) is a Nigerian diplomat and former Under Secretary General of the United Nations for Political Affairs. He was appointed on 10 June 2005 in this function. Since 1999 he is a member of the United Nations Secretariat.

Education and academic and political career

Gambari visited Kings College in Lagos and the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Political Science. His specialty was international relations. The final M. A. (Master of Arts) he received in 1970, a doctorate ( Ph.D.) in 1974 from Columbia University in New York. From 1969 to 1974 he pursued a teaching career at the City University of New York and the State University of New York (Albany ). After his return to Nigeria, he taught at the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, where he eventually became a professor in 1983. In October 1983 he was appointed as a senior director at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, until he was appointed under the government of military dictator Muhammadu Buhari from the Nigerian Foreign Minister in December 1983. After the overthrow of Buhari in August 1985, he returned first to the Ahmadu Bello University. From 1986 to 1989 he was a visiting professor at the Graduate School of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University ( in Washington), Georgetown University and Howard University. He was also a visiting scientist at the Brookings Institution in Washington and the center of the Rockefeller Foundation in Italy.

Career at the United Nations

From January 1990 to October 1999 Gambari represented his home country of Nigeria to the United Nations as the Permanent Representative. In this capacity participated in the 44th part to 54th United Nations General Assembly as a member of the Nigerian representation in an uninterrupted sequence. On two occasions he assumed the position of Chairman of the UN Security true ( in May 1994 and October 1995). He took a leading role in part in several missions of the United Nations, which dealt with the apartheid in South Africa. He chaired the Special Committee for Peace United Nations missions before ( 1990-1999 ). From 1993 to 1999 he was a member of the Trust Board of UNITAR. From January to December 1999, he held also the function of the President of the Executive Committee of UNICEF.

Since 2007 Gambari 's UN Special Adviser of the UN Secretary General for Iraq. In whose behalf he visited Myanmar in February 2009.

Publications

• The new partnership for Africa's development. Challenges and progress in organizing international support, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos 2004, ISBN 9,780,020,462th
• Theory and reality in foreign policy making. Nigeria after the Second Republic, Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, NJ, 1990, ISBN 0-391-03603-3.
• Comparative Study Of Regional Economic Integration: The Case of ECOWAS, Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, NJ, 1991, ISBN 0-391-03696-3.
• Party politics and foreign policy. Nigeria under the First Republic, Ahmadu Bello University Press, Zaria / Nigeria 1980.
• The domestic politics of major foreign policy issues in Nigeria Diss Columbia University, 1974.

Forthcoming publications:

• The United Nations in a changing World Order: an African Perspective.