Ghoulem Berrah | |
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| Born | May 29, 1938 |
| Died | March 4, 2011 |
| Education | MD and PhD |
| Alma mater | Indiana University, Bloomington |
| Occupation(s) | Ambassador Microbiologist Physician |
Ghoulem Berrah (1938-2011) was an Ivorian ambassador and microbiologist.
Ghoulem Berrah | |
|---|---|
| | |
| Born | May 29, 1938 |
| Died | March 4, 2011 |
| Education | MD and PhD |
| Alma mater | Indiana University, Bloomington |
| Occupation(s) | Ambassador Microbiologist Physician |
Ghoulem Berrah (1938-2011) was an Ivorian ambassador and microbiologist.
Ghoulem Berrah was born in Aïn Beïda, Algeria on May 29, 1938. [1] After earning his baccalaureate, Berrah started attending his medical school in France. While there he was the co-founder of the Association of North African Muslim Students, an anti-colonial civil rights association, and joined the Algerian Revolution. [2] He received a master's degree in 1961 and PhD in Microbiology from Indiana University, Bloomington in 1963. [1]
As a physician, Berrah worked in Missour, Morocco for the Ministry of Health. [2] As a researcher, Berrah worked on the process of inhibition in DNA synthesis at the Indiana University. In 1963, he became a professor at the Yale School of Medicine. [2] In 1965, Berrah became an adviser to the Foreign Ministry of Côte d'Ivoire and a close counselor for President Félix Houphouët-Boigny. [2] [3] As a part of this work, he was part of the Ivory Coast delegation to United Nations General Assembly, the OAU, [4] and was a special assistant to the president, [5] and later Ambassador, until 1993. [1] In this role, he worked to further the nation's foreign affairs policy, [6] including diplomatic overtures to foreign leaders and working on Israeli-Palestinian relations. [7] In 1966, Berrah was elected to the New York Academy of Sciences. [2] Berrah died on March 4, 2011, in Miami, Florida. [8]
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