Mr. Ibrahim Agboola Gambari is Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser on Africa at the United Nations Secretariat in New York. 

He most recently held the position of Special Representative of the Secretary General to Angola. Prior to joining the United Nations in 1999, he had successively held the posts of  Director General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nigeria and  Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations. 

An accomplished academic, Professor Gambari has taught at the City University of New York, the State University of New York at Albany and Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria as well as served as a Visiting Professor at the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Baltimore, Maryland. Professor Gambari is widely published in Nigerian and international scholarly journals and has written several books on Nigerian foreign policy. He is currently working on two books: Africa’ Security Questions at the end of the 20^th Century into the new Millennium and The United Nations in a Changing World Order: An African Perspective.   

Professor Gambari holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics, with speciality in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science and  Masters and Ph.D  degrees in political science and international relations from Columbia University, New York.

Office of the Special Adviser on Africa

United Nations Headquarters, New York

 March 2003