Mohammed Ibn Chambas
Mohamed Ibn Chambas ( born December 7, 1950 in Ghana ) is a leading lawyer, diplomat and politician in Ghana. He is currently the Secretary General of the ACP Group of States. Until February 2010 Mohamed Ibn Chambas ECOWAS Executive Secretary was ( Executive Secretary ).
Training
Dr. Ibn Chambas visited the Mfantsipim School in Cape Coast, and later the state secondary school in Tamale. He graduated from the University of Ghana in Legon, a suburb of Accra his political science studies, which he completed in 1973 with the Bachelor. Ibn Chambas moved to Cornell University in the U.S., of which his doctorate he was awarded in 1977 the Master and in 1980. At Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, he received his law degree. Mohamed Ibn Chambas has the authority to act in Ghana and in the State of Ohio, USA as a lawyer.
Career as an academic and lawyer
Ibn Chambas began his career in the USA as a teacher at Oberlin College in Ohio. Later he worked for the law firm Forbes, Forbes and Teamor as a lawyer in Cleveland.
Career as a politician and diplomat
Ibn Chambas returned in the 80s and returned to Ghana in 1987 and was Vice - Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ghana ( Deputy Foreign Secretary of Ghana). In the parliamentary elections in December 1992, under the then in force the fourth constitution of the country, Chambas appeared as a candidate for the constituency Bimilla for the party National Democratic Congress (NDC ) and moved into the Ghanaian Parliament.
In his first year as a member of Parliament, he was First Deputy Speaker of Parliament for the term 1993-1994. Immediately after he was appointed by then-President Jerry Rawlings Vice - Minister of Foreign Affairs. He held until April 1997, and joined at the instigation of Rawlings in the position of Deputy Minister of Higher Education this post. This activity practiced Ibn Chambas out until the political change of power in the elections of 2000. Rawlings took office from John Agyekum Kufuor on. Ibn Chambas was subsequently elected on 21 December 2001 to the Secretary General of ECOWAS.
In the 1996 elections succeeded Ibn Chambas not again prevail in his constituency. However, he won in the elections on 7 December 2000, on his fiftieth birthday again for the NDC parliamentary seat in the constituency Bimilla. Ibn Chambas works as a Member of Parliament predominantly in Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs and in the exclusion of Education.
Mohamed Ibn Chambas participated in a number of international meetings, state visits and meetings. Even he led the Ghanaian delegation to the UN General Assembly, various meetings of the ministers in the OAU and ECOWAS.
Others
Mohamed Ibn Chambas is the first African to be elected at Cornell University in the University ( Cornell University Council). His first term in the University graduated Ibn Chambas zwischen 1997 through 2001. In 2003 he was re-elected for another four -year term. Chambas was awarded the second-highest Order of Ghana, the Order of the Volta.