Mohamed Ibn Chambas

Mohamed Ibn Chambas was born in Bimbilla,Ghana

He attended Government Secondary School, now Tamale Secondary School, in Tamale, as well as Mfantsipim School in Cape Coast. His political science degrees are from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and the University of Ghana in Legon. He graduated from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, with a law degree. In Ghana and the State of Ohio, he received legal admission to practice.

In addition to practicing law at the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland and the Cleveland, Ohio, Law Office of Forbes, Forbes, and Teamor, he also teaches at Oberlin College in Ohio. He went back to Ghana and started running schools there.

As Ghana's deputy foreign secretary, Chambas initially worked for the government. He traveled with the Head of State's summit delegations to the US, China, the UK, France, Malaysia, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe, among other nations. He served as the head of Ghana's mission to the UN General Assembly, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Commonwealth, and ministerial gatherings of the OAU and ECOWAS.

As a peacemaker during the First Liberian Civil War in the 1990s and the Ivorian Civil War in the early 2000s, Chambas gained prominence on a global scale. He was a key player in the ECOWAS mediation efforts in Liberia and took part in the talks that resulted in the accords that put an end to the civil conflict there.

He represented Bimbilla as an MP for the National Democratic Congress.He served as Ghana's Parliament's First Deputy Speaker before being named Deputy Foreign Minister. He presided over the Parliament's Appointments and Privileges Committees in his capacity as First Deputy Speaker. He presided over the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee, which had oversight authority over the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Chambas was chosen to serve as the deputy education minister in responsibility of postsecondary education. In that role, he was directly in charge of the nation's 10 polytechnics, five universities, and agencies/institutions responsible for tertiary institution standards maintenance, accreditation, and policy creation.

Chambas was chosen to serve as the Executive Secretary of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).He served as ECOWAS's Executive Secretary and as the head of the group's 15-member Executive Secretariat.

Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general of the United Nations, and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the chairperson of the African Union Commission, appointed Chambas to the positions of Joint Special Representative for Darfur and Head of the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID). He succeeds Nigeria's Ibrahim Gambari.