Nigeria’s Amina Mohammed named UN Deputy Secretary-General Incoming United Nations (UN) Chief Antonio Guterres on 15 December 2016 appointed Nigeria's Environment Minister Amina Mohammed as his Deputy Secretary-General.Guterres was recently sworn in as the ninth male UN Chief. He pledged to reach gender parity among senior leadership within his five-year term. He will take
over from current Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 1 January 2017.Also, Guterres appointed Brazilian diplomat Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti as Chef de Cabinet and South Korea’s Kyung-wha Kang as Special Adviser on Policy.
About Amina Mohammed
On 11 November 2015, Amina Mohammed was appointed as the Minister of Environment of Nigeria.Previously, she served as Founder and CEO of the Center for Development Policy Solutions. She also served as an Adjunct Professor for the Master’s in Development Practice program at Columbia University.
Born in 1961, she was the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's Special Adviser on Post-2015 Development Planning. She was appointed to the position on 7 June 2012.
About Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
The Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations is the deputy to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
The office was created to handle many of the administrative responsibilities of the Secretary-General.
The person appointed to the post also helps manage Secretariat operations and ensure coherence of activities and programmes.
The post was formally established by the General Assembly at the end of 1997.
Sweden’s Jan Eliasson was named as Deputy Secretary-General by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 2 March 2012.
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