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Ogwu, U. Joy

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Personal name headingOgwu, U. Joy
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Variant(s)Ogwu, Joy
Ogwu, Joy Uche Angela
Ogwu, Uche Joy
Associated countryNigeria United States
Birth date1946-08-22
Field of activityInternational relations Nigeria--Foreign relations Peacekeeping forces Disarmament Diplomacy
AffiliationUnited Nations
United Nations. Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters
Nigerian Institute of International Affairs
Nigeria. Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Profession or occupationAmbassadors Diplomats Political scientists
Found inHer Nigerian foreign policy, 1986: t.p. (U. Joy Ogwu) p. 4 of cover (sr. research fellow, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos)
Anatomy of a consensus, 2015: title page (U. Joy Ogwu) dust jacket (currently Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the United Nations; previously she served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nigeria; a professor of political science and international relations, spent many years at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, becoming its first female Director-General in 2001; in Jan. 2002 she was appointed to serve on the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, culminating in her appointment as the first African female Chair of the Board; she serves as Chair of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations (C-34) since 2009; author of Nigeria's foreign policy: alternative futures (1986))
Wikipedia, viewed Mar. 28, 2017 (Joy Ogwu; Joy Uche Angela Ogwu; born August 22, 1946; BA and MA in political science, Rutgers University; PhD 1977, University of Lagos)
Associated languageeng