| Was |
Teacher Academic |
| From | Algeria |
| Type |
Academia Education |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 1938, Aïn Beïda, Algeria |
| Death |
2011 (aged 73 years) |
Ghoulem Berrah (1938-2011) was an Ivorian ambassador and microbiologist.
Early life and education
Ghoulem Berrah was born in Aïn Beïda, Algeria on May 29, 1938. After earned his baccalaureate Berrah attended medical school in France. While there he was a cofounder of the Association of North African Muslim Students, an anti-colonial civil rights association, and joined the Algerian Revolution. He received a master’s degree in 1961 and PhD in Microbiology from Indiana University, Bloomington in 1963.
Career
As a physician, Berrah worked in Missour, Morocco for the Ministry of Health. 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.
In 1965 Berrah became an adviser to the Foreign Ministry of Côte d’Ivoire and a close counselor for President Félix Houphouët-Boigny. As a part of this work he was part of the Ivory Coast delegation to United Nations General Assembly, the OAU, and was a special assistant to the president, and later Ambassador, until 1993. In this role he worked to further the nation’s foreign affairs policy, including diplomatic overtures to foreign leaders and working on Israeli-Palestinian relations. In 1966 Berrah was elected to the New York Academy of Sciences. Berrah died on March 4, 2011 in Miami, Florida.