BIO:
AMBASSADOR U. JOY OGWU, NIGERIA'S PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE TO THE UNITED
NATIONS (MaximsNewsNetwork)
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U. Joy Ogwu, OFR, serves as the first female Ambassador and Permanent
Representative of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the United Nations. She
is the immediate past Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nigeria (August 2006- May
2007).
In
January 2001, Joy Ogwu was appointed to lead Nigeria‘s foremost Foreign
policy Think Tank (NIIA) as the first woman Director General, a position she
held until 2006.
She
received her academic training in the leading institutions in both Nigeria and
the United States. Her chosen area of specialization in International
Relations is deeply rooted in her background in Political Science and
Diplomatic History, in which areas she earned major academic awards and
distinctions.
A
Dean’s list of honor student, she was in 1974 inducted into IOTA KAPPA
CHAPTER-Rutgers University Honor Society in history, and Phi Alpha
Theta-International Honor Society in History.
Since 1988, Ambassador Ogwu has served variously as Presidential Delegate and
Special Adviser on numerous Nigerian delegations to the United Nations General
Assembly; and on the Multinational United Nations Observer Mission in South
Africa (UNOMSA) that supervised the country’s transition to majority rule in
1994.
She is
a Member of the Board of Regents, Covenant University, Otta, Nigeria.
She also serves on the Board of the Transformation, Integration and
Globalization Economic Research (TIGER) Institute, Warsaw, Poland.
She
has served variously as External Examiner/Assessor for the Departments of
Political Science at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, University of Ibadan and
University of Abuja.
In
January 2002, the then Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan
invited Professor Ogwu to serve as a member of United Nations Advisory Board
on Disarmament Matters.
In
January 2006, she was appointed to serve as Chairman of the Advisory Board for
2006, placing her as the first African woman to serve in that capacity in the
annals of the United Nations.
A
Professor of Political Science and International Relations, she has given
lectures at the Command and Staff College, Jaji, the then National War
College, Abuja and the Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPPS).
In her
academic studies, she focused on Latin America and the dynamics of an
intensified South-South relationship between Africa and Latin America.
In her
public service as a member of the Presidential Advisory Council on
International Relations from 2000 – 2006, she made valid contributions to
the development of Nigeria’s foreign policy.
Her
first book, Nigeria Foreign Policy: Alternative Futures published
in 1986 by Macmillan Press, became a classic text for the study of Nigeria’s
Foreign Policy.
Among
her other numerous works are Nigeria’s International Economic
Relations: Dimensions of Dependence and Change (co-edited);
the Nigerian Navy and the South Atlantic (monograph); the Economic
Diplomacy of the Nigerian State, (co-edited and revised in
2002); New Horizons for Nigeria in World Affairs (Ed)
(2005).
She
has published extensively in scholarly journals and books and lectured
world-wide on South-South relations.
Among
her numerous honors, Professor Ogwu holds the National Meritorious Service
Award of Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (OFR).
She is married to Aloysius Ogwu, M.D., and blessed with children and grand
children.
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