{"id":11237,"date":"2017-02-20T15:48:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T14:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&p=11237"},"modified":"2017-05-22T11:13:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T10:13:12","slug":"kalu-dr-idika-kalu","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/kalu-dr-idika-kalu\/","title":{"rendered":"KALU, Dr. Idika Kalu"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CON, OFR, B.Sc, M.Sc, Ph.D.; economist, politician; b: October 14, 1939; ht: Ebem Ohafia; Iga: Arochukwii- Ohafia; so: Abia; m: Ino; nc: three s, two d; ed: Ebem Ohafia Central Primary School, 1946-53; Ladi-Lak Institute, Yaba, 1947; Colony Public School, Ebute-Metta, Lagos, 1948-49; St. Jude’s School, Ebute-Metta, Lagos, 1950-53; King’s College, Lagos, 1954- 58, 1959-60; University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, 1961-66; 1970-72 and 1971-72. cr: Research f: Lecturer, Economic Development Institute, University of Nigeria, Enugu Cam-pus, 1966-70; Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin, USA, 1971-72; Economist, Department of East Asia Programmes, World Bank, Washington DC, USA and Country Economist, World Bank Projects in Japan, Korea,.Taiwan and Hong-Kong, 1972-80; Head of Economics, Skoup and Company Limited, Lagos and Enugu, 1980-84; comm. Finance and Economic Planning, Imo State, 1984- 85; min. Federal Ministry ofFinance, Lagos, 1985-86; Federal Ministry ofNational Plann-ing, 1986-87; Federal Ministry of Transport, 1987-89; Financial and Economic Consultant, since 1989; Nigerian Ambassador to the European Union, 1999; mm: Nigerian Economic Society; American Economic Association; ch: ECOWAS Council of Ministers, 1986-1989; Board ofTrustees, Private Public Partnership (the Body that raised N100 million through a nationwide live Telethon on March 3, 2002, in aid of the January 27, 2002, Victims of Bomb Blast in Lagos); ch\/md. Dakal Services Limited; v-ch. Emis Limited, since 1996; ch. BGL Limited, 1996; Consultants, Nigerian Fertilizer Company; African Capacity Building Foundation; Global Coalition for African; dir. Minaj, since 1998; f. University of Wisconsin Alumni Fellowship for Economics, 1970-72; award: King’s College Prize for Economics, 1960; African American Scholarship for American Universities (ASPAU), 1961- 64; African American Graduate Fellowship, 1965-66; Senior Men’s Honour Society, Delta Epsilon, Madison; USA, 1964; nh: Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON); Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic ‘,OFR), 2008; pp: Presidential Aspirant, on the platform of National Democratic Party, 2003; hob: classical music, tenhis, chess, squash, reading; off: c\/o BGLSecurities Ltd., Millennium House, 20, CatholicMission Street, Lagos Island, Lagos.; tel: 01-2805544.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2403,166],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-11237","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-economist","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11237","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\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/11237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11237"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=11237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}