The Minister of Environment, Amina Mohammed, has been named one of the world’s greatest leaders by Fortune Magazine. The 2016 list which contains 23 illustrious men and women in the world, who have distinguished themselves in their areas of endeavours was released on Thursday. The list of World Greatest Leaders is an annual list of Fortune Magazine that features a select list of men and women, who have made outstanding impacts in government, business, advocacy, and professional career.
Fortune Magazine is a multinational business publication, published by TimeInc. and headquartered in New York. It was founded by Henry Luce in 1929. The magazine is best known for the “Fortune 500,” a ranking of companies by revenue that it has published annually since 1955.
Its list of World Greatest Leaders, which featured only 15 personalities globally,
last year, saw a leap to 23 this year. Amina Mohammed occupies the 39th
position and is the only Nigerian to have made the list.
In total, the list boasts of 50 outstanding individuals, in which the first five slots are occupied by the 52-year-old CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, in number one, Angela Merkel, number two, Aung San Suu Kyi, number three, Pope Francis, number four, and Tim Cook, CEO, Apple, number five.
Among those who shared the spotlight with the Nigerian minister of
Environment are; Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy, Christina Figueres, executive secretary, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Sheikh Hasina, prime minister of Bangladesh, Nikki Haley, governor of South Carolina, Reshma Saujani, founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, Anna Maria Chavez, CEO of Girl Scouts USA. Others are: Carla Hayden, librarian of Congress nominee, Alicia Garza, Patricia Cullors, and Opal Tometi, co-founders of Black Lives Matter, Chai Jing, Freelance journalist in China, Rosie Batty, founder of the Luke Batty Foundation, Kristen Griest and Shaye Haver, U.S. Army Rangers, Christine Lagarde, managing director of the IMF, Gina Raimondo, Governor of Rhode Island, Melinda Gates and Susan Desmond-Hellmann, co-chair and CEO of the GatesFoundation, Mina Guli, CEO of Thirst, and Clare Rewcastle Brown, editor and founder of the Sarawak Report.
On the international scene, Amina Mohammed was a key player in the
post-2015 global development process, serving as the special adviser to the UN Secretary-general, Ban Ki-Moon on the post-2015 development planning, having been appointed on the UN job on June 7, 2012. 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.From 2002-2005, she coordinated the task force on Gender and Education for the UN Millennium Project. In 2005, she was the coordinator of Nigeria’s debt relief funds toward the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Before she was appointed minister by President Muhammadu Buhari, she served as senior special adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan on MDGs for six years. In this position, she was in charge of designing and developing government projects to reduce poverty within the country.
Amina Mohammed has served on many international advisory boards and
panels such as the Bill Gates Foundation and the UN Secretary General’s GlobalSustainability Panel. On November 11, 2015, she was sworn in as minister of Environment in President Buhari’s cabinet. On the account of her cabinetposition, she has been the chair of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC), since April 5 this year.
In 1991, Amina Mohammed founded Afri-Projects Consortium, a multi-
disciplinary firm of engineers and quantity surveyors. From 1991 to 2001, she was the consortium’s executive director. Between 1981 and 1991, she worked with Archcon Nigeria in association with Norman and Dawbarn United Kingdom.
She is also the founder and CEO of the Centre for Development Policy Solutions and an adjunct professor for the Master’s in Development Practice programme at Columbia University.She was born on June 27, 1961.
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