George A. OBIOZOR

• Assistant Professor of Political Science. Medgar Evers College of the City of New York, USA 1975- 1979 Special Assistant. Research in the office of the Political Adviser to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. 1980 1983 • Senior Research Fellow. Institute of International Affairs 1984 • Special Adviser. Minister of Foreign Affairs Special Assistant to the President on International Affairs. 1990 Director General, Nigeria Institute of International Affairs 1991 - 1999 • Nigerian Ambassador to Israel. 1999 - 2003 • High Commissioner to the Republic of"Cyprus 1999 Attendance to Conferences • Attended many overseas international conferences to explain issues touching Nigerian foreign relations with other nations • Delegate of Nigeria into many Sessions of the United Nations • Attended many summits of the Non-Aligned Movement in Belgrade. Cyprus . etc Represented the Minister of External Affairs to many conferences abroad Has been special guest of many countries including USA. Republic of Korea. Britain. India. Switzerland, and Indonesia, etc. Publications • I las over 7 quality books to his credit • Many special and professionally written articles made public speeches on technical issues bordering on Nigerian's relations to other countries, for instance Arguments why Nigeria should re-establish Diplomatic Relations with Israel. • Guest Lecturer at various universities and Institutions eg .Columbia and Michigan Universities. Institutes of Education Switzerland, etc Awards and Honours Too many to list here. • He is also the Ugwumba 1 of Orlu Recipient of Albert Swhwelzer Fellow ship • Alice Sleitan Fellowship of Columbia University • Has been listed in the American Universities WHO'S WHO He is a real Icon of International Image without blemish. He is married with children. Honours: Recipient,Albert Schwelzer Fellowship; Alice Steitan Fellowship, Columbia University Cited in the America i Who's Who; Publications: The Politics of Precarious Balancing; Nigerian Participation in the United Nations. 1985;IBB's Foreign Policy Pronouncement, 1986- 91; Admiral Augustus Aikhomus Foreign Policy Statement from 1987-92; Uneasy Friendship: Nigeria-United States Relations, 1991;An Analysis of Contending Issues in Nigerian Domestic and Foreign Policy, 1994;Nigeria and the World:- Managing the Politics of Diplomatic Ambivalence Among Nations, 2009; ed. Nigeria at the United Nation: Partnership for a Better World; Nigeria and the Organisation of African Unity: In Search of an African Reality; Nigeria and ECOWAS: Towards A Dynamic Regional Integration; Traditional Title: Ugwumba I ofOrlu. ' Source Publication: The Igbo Icon