Geoffrey Jideofor Kwusike Onyeama // ⓘ (born 2 February 1956[1]) is a Nigerian diplomat and politician who served as the minister for foreign affairs of Nigeria from November 2015 to May 2023.

[6] His family has links to the Nigerian chieftaincy system; his grandfather, Onyeama of Eke, was a paramount chief in Colonial Igboland.

[8] Onyeama was admitted as a Barrister-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1983 and was also called to the English Bar at Gray's Inn in 1981.

[8] Onyeama began his career as a research officer in the Nigerian Law Reform Commission Lagos from 1983 to 1984.

In 1985, he joined the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) as an assistant programme officer for development cooperation and external relations, Bureau for Africa and Western Asia.