Amina J. Mohammed is a British-Nigerian diplomat and politician who is serving as the fifth Deputy Secretary-General at the UN.
Mohammed was born in Liverpool, to a Nigerian veterinary officer and British nurse. She attended schooling in Nigeria and then returned to undertake studies at Henley Management College, UK in 1989. Between 1981 and 1991, Amina worked in Nigeria with an architectural firm in association with Norman and Dawbarn, UK. She founded Afri-Projects Consortium in 1991, serving as Executive Director until 2001.
From 2002 until 2005, Mohammed coordinated the Task Force on Gender and Education for the UN Millennium Project. She acted as Senior Special Assistant to the President on the Millennium Development Goals. In 2005, she coordinated Nigeria’s debt relief funds.
Mohammed founded the Center for Development Policy Solutions and became an Adjunct Professor for the Master’s in Development Practice programme at Columbia University. During the time, she served on the UN Secretary-General’s Panel on Post-2015 Development Agenda; the Independent Expert Advisory Group on the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development as well as the UNESCO Global Monitoring Report on Education.
Amina J. Mohammed served as Federal Minister of Environment in President Buhari’s cabinet from 2015 to 2017 and was the Nigerian representative in the AU Reform Steering Committee.
In 2017, UN Secretary-General António Guterres appointed her as the UN Deputy Secretary-General.
Refs: Amina J. Mohammed – Wikipedia ; Deputy Secretary-General | United Nations Secretary-General
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