Amina J. Mohammed | |
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| 5th Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations | |
| Assumed office 1 January 2017 | |
| Secretary-General | António Guterres |
| Preceded by | Jan Eliasson |
| Minister of Environment | |
| In office 11 November 2015 – 15 December 2016 | |
| President | Muhammadu Buhari |
| Preceded by | Lawrencia Laraba-Mallam |
| Succeeded by | Ibrahim Usman Jibril |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Amina Jane Mohammed (1961-06-27)27 June 1961 (age 63) Liverpool, England |
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| Children | Nadine Ibrahim |
| Education | The Buchan School |
| Alma mater | Henley Management College |
Amina Jane Mohammed[1]GCON[2] (born 27 June 1961) is a Nigerian-British diplomat and politician who is serving as the 5thDeputy Secretary-General of the United Nations.[3] Previously, she wasNigerian Minister of Environment from 2015 to 2016[4] and was a player in thePost-2015 Development Agenda process. She is also Chair ofUnited Nations Sustainable Development Group.
Amina Jane Mohammed is Muslim and was born inLiverpool,England, on 27 June 1961[5] to aFulani Nigerianveterinarian-officer and a British nurse. She is the eldest of five daughters.[6]
Amina J. Mohammed attended a primary school inKaduna andMaiduguri in Nigeria andThe Buchan School on theIsle of Man.[7] She further attendedHenley Management College in 1989 but she does not hold a formal bachelor's degree.[8] After she finished her studies her father demanded she return toNigeria.[6]
Between 1981 and 1991, Amina J. Mohammed worked with Archcon Nigeria, anarchitectural design firm in association withNorman and Dawbarn United Kingdom.[9] She founded Afri-Projects Consortium in 1991 and served as its Executive Director until 2001.[10]
From 2002 until 2005, Amina Mohammed coordinated the Task Force on Gender andEducation for theUnited Nations Millennium Project.[10]
Amina later acted as the Senior Special Assistant to the President of Nigeria on theMillennium Development Goals (MDGs).[11]In 2005, she was charged with the coordination of Nigeria's debt relief funds toward the achievement of the MDGs.[12] Her mandate included designing a Virtual Poverty Fund with innovative approaches to poverty reduction, budget coordination and monitoring, as well as providing advice on pertinent issues regarding poverty, public sector reform and sustainable development.[13]
Amina Mohammed later became the founder and CEO of the Center for Development Policy Solutions and as anAdjunct Professor for the Master's in Development Practice program atColumbia University.[14] During that time, she served on numerous international advisory boards and panels, including theUN Secretary-General's High-level Panel on Post-2015 Development Agenda[15] and the Independent Expert Advisory Group on the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development.[16] She also chaired the Advisory Board of theUnited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Global Monitoring Report on Education (GME).[10]
From 2012, Amina Mohammed was a key player in thePost-2015 Development Agenda process, serving as the Special Adviser to UN Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon on Post-2015 development planning.[10][17] In this role, she acted as the link between the Secretary-General, his High Level Panel of Eminent Persons (HLP), and theGeneral Assembly’s Open Working Group (OWG), among other stakeholders.[10] From 2014, she also served on the Secretary-General's Independent Expert Advisory Group on the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development.[18]
Amina J. Mohammed served as Federal Minister of the Environment in theFirst Cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari from November 2015 to February 2017.[19] During that time, she was Nigeria's representative in theAfrican Union (AU) Reform Steering Committee, chaired byPaul Kagame.[20] She resigned from the Nigerian Federal Executive Council on 24 February 2017.[21]
In 2017, Amina Mohammed was accused by an advocacy group of granting illegal permits to Chinese firms to import endangered Nigerian timber during her term as Nigeria's environment minister.[22][23][24] The Nigerian government has denied the claims.[25]
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In January 2017,United Nations Secretary-GeneralAntónio Guterres announced his intention to appoint MohammedDeputy Secretary-General of the United Nations.[26] In this capacity, she is a member of the UN Interagency Coordination Group onAntimicrobial Resistance (IACG).[27]
Mohammed's daughter,Nadine Ibrahim, is a film director.[38]
The Amina Mohammed Skills Acquisition Centre which is located along theGombe bye-pass was constructed by theSDGs in partnership with the Government of Gombe in order to honour theDeputy Secretary General of the United Nations, Hajiya Amina Mohammed's contributions to social, political and cultural boundaries. The skills acquisition centre named after her seeks to offer instruments for economic empowerment and also to provide various life-skills trainings for young people in many areas of life.[39]
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| Preceded by | Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations 2017–present | Incumbent |
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