Joy Ogwu
Joy Uche Angela Ogwu (an haifeta ranar 22 ga watan Agusta, shekara ta alif ɗari tara da arba'in da shida 1946) tsohuwar ministar harkokin wajen Najeriya ce kuma tsohuwar wakiliyar Najeriya ta dindindin a Majalisar Dinkin Duniya a New York 2008-2017.   Ita ce mace ta farko da ta rike mukamin dindindin, a Majalisar Dinkin Duniya a tarihin Najeriya .  Kafin aikinta na minista, Ogwu, wadda ta fito daga jihar Delta, ta yi aiki a matsayin Darakta-Janar na Cibiyar Harkokin Kasa da Kasa ta Najeriya (NIIA).

Ogwu ta shawarci Majalisar Dinkin Duniya kan batutuwan kwance damarar makamai kuma ta wallafa littafai da ke inganta karin alakar Afirka da Latin Amurka.  Ita ce tsohuwar shugabar kwamitin amintattu na Cibiyar Nazarin kwance damara ta Majalisar Dinkin Duniya (UNIDIR).

Shugaban Najeriya Olusegun Obasanjo ne ya nada ta a matsayin ministar harkokin waje a ranar 30 ga Agusta, 2006. 

A cikin 2008, Ogwu ya zama wakiliyar Najeriya na dindindin a Majalisar Dinkin Duniya a New York .  Ogwu ya kasance shugaban kwamitin tsaro na Majalisar Dinkin Duniya a watan Yuli 2010 da kuma a watan Oktoba 2011.  Ita ce tsohuwar shugabar hukumar zartaswar kungiyar mata ta Majalisar Dinkin Duniya don daidaiton jinsi da karfafa mata. 

Ogwu ta samu BA da MA a fannin kimiyyar siyasa daga Jami'ar Rutgers .Daga baya ta samu Ph.D. daga Jami'ar Legas a Najeriya.  Yayin da take samun Ph.D. a 1977, ta shiga Cibiyar Harkokin Kasa da Kasa a Jami'ar Legas . 

Ogwu ta fara aikinta ne a matsayin mataimakiyar malamin Kwaleji, a Kwalejin Yaki ta Kasa  da Cibiyar Nazarin Siyasa da Dabaru (NIPSS).  Daga baya ta shiga NIIA a matsayin malama, inda ta sami haɗin gwiwar bincike inda ta rubuta littafinta na farko, Siyasar Harkokin Waje ta Najeriya:Alternative Futures (Macmillan, 1986). Daga karshe ta jagoranci sashen bincike a harkokin siyasar duniya, inda ta kai ga matsayinta na mace ta farko da ta zama Darakta Janar.Aikin  bambanta a cikin ƙarin mayar da hankali ga ƙasashe masu tasowa na Latin Amurka, yana ba da damar yin bincike kan yuwuwar ƙwararrun dangantakar Kudu maso Kudu tsakanin Afirka ta Kudu da Sahara da Latin Amurka. damar ta gudanar da haɗin gwiwar ziyara a Cibiyar Nazarin Latin Amurka ta Jami'ar London kuma an buga ta da yawa a cikin Portuguese, Spanish, Faransanci da Croatian.A  kan al'amuran tsaro, tana aiki a kwamitin ba da shawara na Sakatare Janar na Majalisar Dinkin Duniya kan al'amuran kwance damara.

A matsayinta na macen da ke kan gaba a fagen sana’arta da ta yi fice, Ogwu ta zama mai magana da yawun ci gaban mata da ‘yancin dan Adam. A cikin wannan batu, hangen nesanta ya shafi yankin Asiya Pasifik, Latin Amurka da Afirka kudu da hamadar Sahara tare da wallafe-wallafen da suka shafi yanki na batun. A kokarinta cikin gwamnati a karkashin kulawar NIIA da Kwamitin Ba da Shawarar Shugaban Kasa kan Hulda ta Kasa da Kasa ta ba da gudummawa mai kyau, ga manufofin gwamnati masu amfani kamar gina dangantakar Najeriya da Amurka ta Kudu, a matakin macro da Majalisar Dinkin Duniya. Kungiyar kula da zamantakewa da al'adu ta ilimi ( UNESCO ) ta tallafa wa shirin koyar da 'yancin ɗan adam a Makarantun Najeriya akan ƙaramin matakin., ci gaba da rawar da take takawa a tawagar Najeriya ta Majalisar Dinkin Duniya a Majalisar Dinkin Duniya tana ba da gudummawar da ta bayar a matsayin mai tasiri wajen kulla alakar Najeriya da sauran kasashen duniya.

Littattafan data wallafa 

 Nigerian Foreign Policy: Alternative Futures, published by the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs in co-operation with Macmillan Nigeria Publishers, 1986
 Africa and Latin America: Perspectives and Challenges
 New Horizons for Nigeria in World Affairs, 2005

Manazarta

Hanyoyin haɗi na waje 

 Appearances on C-SPAN
 "Nigeria names Rutgers-trained professor as new foreign minister", Newsday, August 30, 2006 (Accessed August 31, 2006)
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 Nigerian National War College

Haifaffun 1946
Rayayyun mutane
Minisatar Harkokin kasar waje
Minisata ta mace
Ambasada
Wakiliyar najeriya ta dindindin a majalisar dinkin duniya
Rayayyiya
Yar kabilar ibo kuma yar siyasa
Yar siyasar jahar Delta