Amina J. Mohammed

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Amina J. Mohammed (born June 27, 1961 in Gombe ) is a Nigerian politician ( All Progressives Congress ). She has been Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations (UN) since January 1, 2017 .

Early life and family

Amina Mohammed was born in Gombe, a state in northeastern Nigeria, in 1961. Her mother was British and her father was Nigerian. She has six children.

Career

Between 1981 and 1991 she worked with the building technology company Archcon Nigeria , in collaboration with the English consulting firm Norman and Dawbarn. In 1991 she founded the Afri-Projects Consortium, an interdisciplinary company of engineers and cost planners, and was its managing director until 2001.

From 2002 to 2005 coordinated Mohammed the "Task Force on Gender and Education" for the UN project Millennium Development Goals ( Millennium Development Goals, MDG).

In 2005 she was responsible for coordinating the fund for Nigeria's debt relief for the MDG. She acted as the "Senior Special Assistant" to the President of Nigeria for the Millennium Development Goals. She served a total of three presidents over a six-year period.

Mohammed then founded the Center for Development Policy Solutions as Managing Director and was Adjunct Professor for the Master’s program in development work at Columbia University (USA).

As Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for post-2015 planning, Amina Mohamed was a key figure in the post-2015 development process. She acted as a liaison between the Secretary-General and the UN High-level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (HLP), the General Assembly's Open Working Group (OWG) and other actors.

From November 11, 2015 to December 15, 2016, she was Environment Minister of Nigeria under President Muhammadu Buhari .

On January 1, 2017, she was appointed Vice Secretary-General of the United Nations by Secretary General António Guterres .

criticism

Environmental protection organizations such as Rainforest Rescue accuse the UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed of having illegally signed export documents as a former minister of environmental protection in order to illegally export $ 300 million rosewood from Nigeria to China. Amina Mohammed rejects the allegation.

Awards

Amina Mohammed received the "National Honors Award" of the Order of the Federal Republic (Nigeria) in 2006 and in 2007 she entered the Nigerian Women's Hall of Fame. In 2020 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Web links

Commons : Amina J. Mohammed  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sustainable Development Solutions Network | Amina Mohammed . Retrieved December 8, 2016.
  2. ↑ Nigeria: MDGs and Amina Az-Zubair's Footprint 24-November-2011 . Allafrica.com. November 24, 2011.
  3. ↑ Klaus Boldt: epo.de meets Amina J. Mohammed, UN ambassador. epo.de - Entwicklungspolitik online, accessed on January 3, 2017 .
  4. ↑ A Success - By Amina Mohammed. United Nations Regional Information Center for Western Europe - unric.org, accessed January 3, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Deutsche Welle: Nigeria's environment minister becomes UN deputy. DW.COM, January 1, 2017, accessed on January 3, 2017 .
  6. ↑ https://www.regenwald.org/petUNGEN/1108/verhütung-den-raubbau-von-palisander Online signature campaign from Rettet den Regenwald
  7. ↑ http://allafrica.com/stories/201711110108.html Online platform from 130 African news agencies
personal data
SURNAME Mohammed, Amina J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian politician (All Progressives Congress)
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Gombe , Nigeria