MsAmina J. Mohammed is Minister of Environment of Nigeria, appointed on 11
November 2015. On Thursday, December 15, 2016, the UN Secretary-General-designate
Antonio Guterres
announced that he will appoint her as his Deputy Secretary-General. Previously,
Amina Mohammed was a key player in the Post-2015 development process, serving
as the Special Adviser to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on Post-2015 development planning. In
this role, she acted as the link between the Secretary-General, his High Level
Panel of Eminent Persons (HLP), and the General Assembly’s Open Working Group
(OWG), among other stakeholders. [1]
Prior to this position, Mohammed
served as Founder and CEO of the Center for Development Policy Solutions and as
an Adjunct Professor for the Master’s in Development Practice program at
Columbia University. Previously, she acted as the Senior Special Assistant to
the President of Nigeria on the Millennium Development Goals after serving
three presidents over a period of six years. In 2005, she was charged with the
coordination of Nigeria’s debt relief funds toward the achievement of the MDGs.
From 2002-2005, Mohammed coordinated the Task Force on Gender and Education for
the UN Millennium Project.
Earlier in her career, Amina
Mohammed was Founder and Executive Director of Afri-Projects Consortium, a
multidisciplinary firm of engineers and quantity surveyors. She also worked
with the architectural engineering firm Archcon Nigeria in association with
Norman and Dawbarn, UK.
Born in 1961, Amina J. Mohammed
was the United
Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's Special Adviser on Post-2015
Development Planning. She was appointed to this position on 7 June
2012.[2] Mohammed was appointed Hon Minister of
the Environment by President Buhari when he swore in his new Cabinet on 11
November 2015.
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Career
Amina J. Mohammed has been working
in the field of development for more than 30 years both in the public sector
and the private sector. Prior to her current appointment, she was the CEO and
founder of the think tank Center for Development Policy Solutions.
Previously, she worked as senior
adviser to the President of Nigeria on Millennium
Development Goals for six years. In this position, she was in charge of
designing and developing government projects to reduce poverty around the
country.[3] Between 2002 and 2005, she worked in
the United Nations Millennium Project as a coordinator of the Task Force on
Gender and Education.
In 1991, Amina Mohammed founded
Afri-Projects Consortium, a multidisciplinary firm of Engineers and Quantity
Surveyors, and from 1991 to 2001 she was its Executive Director. Between 1981
and 1991, she worked with Archcon Nigeria in association with Norman and
Dawbarn United Kingdom.[4]
On November 11, 2015 Mohammed was
sworn in as the Environment Minister in Buhari's cabinet.[5] Mohammed has also served on many
international advisory boards and panels such as the Gates Foundation and the UN Secretary General’s
Global Sustainability Panel.
Since April 5, 2016, Mohammed has
served as Chair of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC).
Personal
Amina Mohammed was born in Kaduna
State, Northern Nigeria in 1961. Her mother is a British, while her father is a
Nigerian.[6] She has six children. She hails from
Gombe Local Government Area, Gombe state.
Achievements
In 2005 Amina coordinated the Debt
Relief Funds of $1Billion towards achievement of Millennium Development goals
in Nigeria. She also coordinated Development of a Fully Participatory National
Action Plan.
Awards
Amina
Mohammed received the National Honours Award of the Order of the Federal
Republic in 2006 and was inducted in the Nigerian Women’s Hall of Fame in 2007.
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