Amina J. Mohammed

Amina J. Mohammed
5th Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
Incumbent
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	TBD
Personal details
Born	(1961-06-27) 27 June 1961 Gombe State, Nigeria
Political party	All Progressives Congress

Amina J. Mohammed (born 27 June 1961) is the current Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, and former Minister of Environment of Nigeria.

Early life and family

Amina Mohammed was born in Kaduna State, Northern Nigeria in 1961. Her mother is a British, while her father is a Nigerian. She has six children and hails from Gombe Local Government Area, Gombe state.

Career

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.

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.

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.

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.