ゲリット・オリヴィエ教授は南アフリカの学者であり外交官です。1983年にアパルトヘイト外交団に加わり、コミュニケーション・企画部門の部長に就任しました。1991年には、アパルトヘイト時代の南アフリカのソ連における初の外交代表となり、 1992年にはロシア連邦とカザフスタンにおける初の南アフリカ大使に任命されました。現在はプレトリア大学政治学部の特任教授です
オリヴィエはプレトリア大学で国際政治学の博士号を取得しました。その後、ズールーランド大学で政治学の上級講師を務め、その後プレトリア大学の国際政治学科長に任命されました。[ 1 ]
In 1983, he left academia to enter the diplomatic service of the apartheid government.[2] During that time he campaigned against the sanctions that had been imposed on apartheid South Africa and was considered close to the apartheid regime.[3] Prior to this he had defended South Africa's apartheid government in his academic work.[4] In 1991 he became apartheid South Africa's first diplomat on mission to the Soviet Union and was first Ambassador to the Russian Federation, also representing South Africa in Kazakhstan.[1] In 1996 Olivier returned to his academic career and was appointed as director of the Centre for European Studies at what was then the Rand Afrikaans University. He was a founding member, and later president, for 8 years, of the South African Political Science Association, and first editor of Politikon – a journal in political science.[5] He remains an active member of the committees of several institutions, including the Pretoria Branch of the South African Institute of International Affairs, the South African Business Chamber, the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa and commissioner on the Afrikaanse Taalmuseum Council. He is Professor Extraordinaire in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria. He remains involved in the study of Russian foreign and security policy and SA/Africa/Russian relations and is the founder and Chairman of the South African/Russian Dialogue Forum (SARDF). He wrote various books, chapters in books and articles on international relations,[1] as well as op-ed articles for South African Newspapers, also commenting on radio and television on current events.
In 2013, Prof Oliver was awarded the Stals Award for political science from the "Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns".
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