George A. Obiozor CON (15 August 1942 – 26 December 2022) was a Nigerian professor and diplomat who was the Nigerian Ambassador to the United States.

Early life and education

Obiozor was born on 15 August 1942. He studied at the

Institute of African Studies The Institute of African Studies on the Anne Jiagee road on campus of the University of Ghana at Legon is an interdisciplinary research institute in the humanities and social sciences. It was established by President Kwame Nkrumah in 1962 to enco ...

, and Albert Schweitzer College. He graduated from the

University of Puget Sound The University of Puget Sound (UPS or Puget Sound) is a private university in Tacoma, Washington. The university draws approximately 2,600 students from 44 states and 16 countries. It offers 1,200 courses each year in more than 50 traditional an ...

in 1969, and from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

with a

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. in International Affairs.

Career

Obiozor was director-general of the

Nigerian Institute of International Affairs The Nigerian Institute of International Affairs was established in 1961, to provide a platform of ideas on what direction Nigeria should follow on international policies, having regards to relationship with the outside world. The institute is headed ...

. He later became the High Commissioner to

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, before becoming ambassador to

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

, from 1999 to 2003, then ambassador to the United States, from 2004 to 2008. Obiozor was elected as the President General of Ohaneze ndi Igbo on 9 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, *''The politics of precarious balancing: an analysis of contending issues in Nigerian domestic and foreign policy'', Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, 1994, *''Nigeria and the World: Managing the Politics of Diplomatic Ambivalence in a Changing World. Panatlantic Books, Centre for Human Security.''

Quotes

* "Politics is a concentric series of conspiracies in which the last party to conspire emerges victorious"

Personal life and death

George Obiozor died on 26 December 2022, at the age of 80. He was survived by his 3 Children

References

External links

"Interview with a Nigerian Statesman – Ambassador George Obiozor"
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Nigerian Embassy to the US - Ambassadors Biography
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