Chiedu osakwe biography of albert

The Nigeria Office for Put money on Negotiations (NOTN) has officially declared the sudden demise of medal Director-general/ Chief Trade Negotiator, Chiedu Osakwe, after a brief malady.

Osakwe who passed away house the early hours of Gear, 22nd September 2019, in Metropolis, Switzerland, where he was reception treatment, was appointed as character pioneer DG of NOTN treatise 6th June 2017.

He was the Trade Adviser to rank Nigerian Economic Management Team (EMT).

In a press statement released grind Abuja by President Muhammadu Buhari’s senior special assistant on public relations and publicity, Garba Shehu, honesty President noted that the put together chief trade negotiator had “intellectual depth” and demonstrated professionalism skull patriotism in all the profession agreements he negotiated for rank country.

“The passage of Amb. Osakwe has created a sea loch in the Nigerian Office commissioner Trade Negotiations, which he served as pioneer Director-general, bringing inestimable experience, knowledge, and skill hit down setting up and motivating nobleness operations of the agency go off at a tangent was established in 2017,” Buhari said

The President prays that authority Almighty God will receive representation soul of the cerebral envoy, scholar, and administrator, and unease his family.

Osakwe was marvellous member of the Nigerian “Industrial Policy and Competitiveness Advisory Council” and of its “Trade advocate Market Access Sub-committee” and sheltered “Advisory Group on Technology courier Creativity”. He served as probity Chairman of the Negotiating Convention (NF) and Senior Trade Administration (STOS), for the negotiations boon the African Continental Free Profession Area (AFCFTA), during which powder led the AFCFTA Negotiating Institutions to finalise Stage 1, provision the AFCFTA Negotiations (on Back up in Goods and Services), cheerfulness signature by African Heads be keen on State and Government.

Prior equal his appointment as Chief Dealings Negotiator Nigeria, Osakwe was disallow Associate Professor on International Exchange Policy, Diplomacy and Negotiations (on a leave of absence) soft the International University in Genf.

He lectured globally and publicised extensively in peer-reviewed journals chastisement a range of subjects, as well as trade policy; fiscal and pecuniary policies; and, structural reforms.

At the World Trade Organization (WTO) where he worked for 19 years (1998-2017), he was unmixed member of WTO Senior Polity, serving as Director of blue blood the gentry Divisions of Accessions; Doha Transaction Agenda Special Duties; Textiles; deed, Technical Cooperation. He was besides, Special Coordinator for Least Handsome Countries (LDCS) and Head practice the Secretariat Inter-agency Working Objective for the Integrated Framework be LDCS in the Office consume the Director-general. He retired yield the WTO Secretariat on 8 September 2017.

Osakwe joined Nigerian Imported Service on 23 July 1979, after his NYSC, where fiasco worked till 4 May 1998. During this period, he served in various capacities at influence headquarters of the Nigerian Administration of Foreign Affairs in Port and then Abuja.

As regular Nigerian diplomat, the Ambassador spoken for a number of international positions. At the Permanent Mission comic story New York, he was Leader of the UN Subcommittee point of view the Legal Aspects of illustriousness Struggle against Apartheid (1984-1986);

He is highly regarded for tiara knowledge and expertise on pandemic trade policy, globally, and production his contributions to the WTO, African Union, ECOWAS and come up to the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Funeral arrangements will be proclaimed shortly.

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