Achim Steiner

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Achim Steiner (2014)

Achim Steiner (born May 17, 1961 in Carazinho , Brazil ) is a German-Brazilian politician and Under-Secretary-General at the United Nations  (UN). Until 2016, he headed the UN Environment Program  (UNEP) as Executive Director . In 2017 he was nominated as head of the UN Development  Program (UNDP).

Life

Achim Steiner was born in Brazil as the son of a farmer who immigrated from Germany. He has both German and Brazilian citizenship. He grew up in Brazil and studied philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Oxford . He holds a Masters Degree in Economics and Regional Planning from the University of London . Study visits at the German Development Institute (DIE) in Berlin and at Harvard Business School followed. After completing his studies, Steiner first worked for environmental associations at the local level before starting his work in international environmental protection.

Steiner initially worked for the world's largest nature conservation organization, IUCN, in Washington, DC and Asia, and in 1998 became Secretary General of the World Commission on Dams (WCD) in Cape Town . In 2001 he returned to the IUCN as General Director of the World Conservation Union IUCN, based in Gland , Switzerland .

Director of the UN Environment Program

On March 15, 2006, Achim Steiner was nominated in Nairobi by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to succeed Klaus Töpfer for the office of Executive Director of UNEP and was elected one day later by the UN General Assembly. He took office on June 15, 2006. On April 22, 2010, Steiner was confirmed in office for another four years. The second appointment period began on June 15, 2010 and ended on June 14, 2014.

During Steiner's tenure, the UNEP budget was expanded from 7 million  US dollars in 2012 to 34.96 million US dollars for the period 2014/2015. This corresponds to 4.5% of the total expenditure of the UN in the period 2014 to 2015. In 2012 he was awarded the honorary award of the German Sustainability Award for his commitment.

Steiner announced his resignation in June 2016. He has accepted an offer at the Martin School at the University of Oxford .

Head of the UN development program

Steiner meets East Timor's Foreign Minister Dionísio Babo (2019)

On April 18, 2017, Steiner was nominated by UN Secretary General António Guterres as Administrator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and subsequently confirmed by the UN General Assembly. Steiner took up his post on June 19, 2017.

Honors

Web links

Commons : Achim Steiner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ It is not enough just to be a critic , interview by Bernhard Pötter, taz, August 13, 2016
  2. ↑ Michael McCarthy: Achim Steiner: 'We haven't even begun to understand the damage we are bringing to bear on the sustainability of our planet'. The Independent, April 8, 2012, accessed April 20, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Regular budget. In: unep.org. Retrieved August 15, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Honorary Prize Winners (2012 selection required) ( Memento from October 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Adam Vaughan: UK renewables cuts 'risk slowing shift to clean energy'. In: theguardian.com. May 24, 2016, accessed May 24, 2016 .
  6. ^ Achim Steiner takes office as Administrator of the United Nations Development Program. UNDP, June 19, 2017, accessed on October 18, 2017 .
  7. ^ Adam Smith Prize for market-based environmental policy . Website of the Ecological-Social Market Economy forum. Retrieved October 7, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Steiner, Achim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Executive Director of the UN Environment Program
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Carazinho