George Obiozor

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George A. Obiozor
Personal details
Born (1942-08-15) August 15, 1942 (age 79)
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George Obiozor (born August 15, 1942) is a Nigerian professor and diplomat. He was the Nigerian Ambassador to the United States.

He studied at the Institute of African Studies, and . He graduated from the University of Puget Sound in 1969, and from Columbia University with a Ph.D. in International Affairs.[1]

Career[]

He was director-general of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs. He was the high commissioner to Cyprus. He was the Nigerian ambassador to Israel, from 1999 to 2003. He was the Nigerian ambassador to the United States, from 2004 to 2008. Elected as the President General of Ohaneze ndi Igbo on Sunday 9th January,2021, a socio-cultural group was formed to cater for the welfare of the Igbo nation from Nigeria.

Works[]

  • Uneasy Friendships: Nigeria-United States Relations, Fourth Dimension Pub. Co., 1992, ISBN 978-978-156-318-8
  • The politics of precarious balancing: an analysis of contending issues in Nigerian domestic and foreign policy, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, 1994, ISBN 978-978-002-026-2
  • Nigeria and the World: Managing the Politics of Diplomatic Ambivalence in a Changing World. Panatlantic Books, Centre for Human Security. ISBN 978-1-890091-53-8

Quotes[]

  • "Politics is a concentric series of conspiracies in which the last party to conspire emerges victorious" [2]

References[]

  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-09. Retrieved 2011-05-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-02-22. Retrieved 2007-04-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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