{"id":10764,"date":"2017-02-16T16:40:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T15:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10764"},"modified":"2017-05-15T16:59:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T15:59:34","slug":"okongwu-dr-sonny-p-chu","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okongwu-dr-sonny-p-chu\/","title":{"rendered":"OKONGWU, Dr. Sonny P. Chu"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Sc (Hons), Ph.D, economist, born September 23, 1934, Enugu, Anambra State; married, has four sons; Education: St Michael&#8217;s School, Aba, 1941-46, Government College, Umuahia, 1947-51, Dennis Memorial Grammar School, Onitsha, 1951, Boston University, Massachusetts, USA, 1961, Harvard University, USA, 1965, Netherlands Economics Institute, Rotterdam; Broadcasting Officer, defunct Nigerian Broadcasting Service; sub-editor, Daily Times of Nigeria: features editor, West African Pilot, and editor, Nigerian Teacher; Teacher, Lagos City College; Public Relations Officer, Mobil Oil Nigeria Limited; Research Assistant, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System, Washington DC, USA, 1961; Lecturer, Economic Development Institute, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, 1965; Staff member,. Centre for Development Planning, Projections and Policies, UN Secretariat, New York, USA, 1965-70; associate Professor of Economics, State University of New York, USA, 1970-72; Chief Planning Officer, defunct East Central State Agricultural Development Corporation, 1972-73; Controller of Planning and Permanent Secretary, defunct East-Central State Ministry of Economic Development and Reconstruction, 1973-75; former Chairman, Committee for Reconstruction, Institute of Management and Technology, -Enugu; former Secretary, Ijere Committee on Agricultural Development, defunct East-Central State; Managing Director, Multivar Systems (Consulting firm); appointed Federal Minister for National Planning, 1985-86; Federal Minister of Finance, since 1986; appointed chairman, African Development Bank, since June 1989; Foreign Honour: awarded Knight of the British Empire (KBE), UK, May 1989; Publications: The Nigerian Economy (Enugu, Fourth Dimension, 1987) and many articles in national and international learned journals; Hobbies: chess, squash, cooking, cycling, studying (history and mathematics); Official Address: Federal Ministry of Finance, Federal Secretariat Complex 1, 31-36, Ikoyi, Lagos State. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2403],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10764","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-economist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10764"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}