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GARDINER, Robert Kweku Atta

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  • 1. Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
  • 2. The College of Wooster, United States
  • 3. Geneva, Switzerland

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Ghanaian economist and second Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UN ECA) 1962-1975 Was born 29 September 1914 in Kumasi, Ghana, and passed away 13 April 1994 in Accra, Ghana. He is the son of Phillip H.D. Gardiner, a trader, and Nancy Torraine Ferguson, also a trader. On 24 July 1943 he married Linda Charlotte Edwards, a Jamaican painter. They had two daughters and one son. Entry in IO BIO, Biographical Dictionary of Secretaries-General of International Organizations.

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