Hajia Amina Mohammed Az-Zubair

Amina J. Mohammed is the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations. She was previously a special adviser to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and was instrumental in setting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. British-Nigerian by birth, Mohammed served as Nigeria's environmental minister in 2016, guiding the country's efforts on fighting climate change. She worked in three successive administrations in Nigeria, coordinating programs worth $1 billion annually for development goal-related interventions. Hajia Amina Mohammed Az-Zubair (formerly Ibrahim) is senior special assistant to the President of Nigeria on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Her current position builds on her former role as national coordinator for Education for All (EFA) at the Federal Ministry of Education in Nigeria. In this capacity she coordinated the development of a National Action Plan that included such cross-cutting areas as HIV/AIDS and macroeconomic strategies for poverty reduction as proposed in the World Bank Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, led a national coalition of 124 civil organizations working on education issues, and participated in the establishment of the Africa Network Campaign on EFA (ANCEFA) to advocate for free, quality education in sub-Saharan Africa. Mrs. Az-Zubair served as coordinator of the Task Force on Gender and Education for the U.N. Millennium Project. She was the founding partner and executive director of the Afri-Projects Consortium, an engineering consulting firm covering key sectors such as education, agriculture, water, and health. Mrs. Az-Zubair is a member of the National Human Rights Commission in Nigeria and the Education Advisory Panel of the World Economic Forum.