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Amina Mohammed

Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations, Chair of the Summit Advisory Committee

Ms. Amina J. Mohammed is the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and Chair of the United Nations Sustainable Development Group.

Prior to her appointment, Ms. Mohammed served as Minister of Environment of the Federal Republic of Nigeria where she steered the country¡¯s efforts on climate action and efforts to protect the natural environment.

Ms. Mohammed first joined the United Nations in 2012 as Special Adviser to former Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with the responsibility for post-2015 development planning. She led the process that resulted in global agreement around the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the creation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Ms. Mohammed began her career working on the design of schools and clinics in Nigeria. She served as an advocate focused on increasing access to education and other social services, before moving into the public sector, where she rose to the position of adviser to three successive Presidents on poverty, public sector reform, and sustainable development.

Ms. Mohammed has been conferred several honorary doctorates and has served as an adjunct professor, lecturing on international development. The recipient of various global awards, Ms Mohammed has served on numerous international advisory boards and panels. She is the mother of six children and has two grandchildren.

Joachim von Braun

Bonn University, ZEF

Joachim Von Braun is the Director of The Center for Development Research (ZEF), at the University of Bonn.

Professor Joachim Von Braun is an economist, with a Doctoral degree in agricultural economics from the University of G?ttingen, Germany. He is Professor for Economic and Technological Change at the University of Bonn, President of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences of the Vatican, member of the Academy of Science of North-Rhine Westphalia, of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech), of the National German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences and of the African Academy of Sciences.

He is also the Vice-President of the NGO ¡°Welthungerhilfe¡±, Co-Chair of the International Advisory Committee on Bioeconomy, and member of the Board of AGRA and of GAIN. He serves as Chair of the Scientific Group of the Ãå±±½ûµØFood Systems Summit 2021.

Von Braun was Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) based in Washington, DC, USA from 2002 to 2009. His research addresses international and development economics topics, including markets and trade, poverty, health and nutrition, agriculture, and science and technology. He was President of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE).

Among awards received by Joachim, are a honorary Doctoral degree from the University of Hohenheim, and the Bertebos Prize of the Swedish Academy of Agricultural Sciences for his research on food security, and the Justus von Liebig Prize for his research on international nutrition.

Inger Andersen

Chair, Ãå±±½ûµØTask Force, and Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Inger Andersen was appointed Executive Director of the UNEP by Ãå±±½ûµØSecretary-General Ant¨®nio Guterres in February 2019.

Between 2015 and 2019, Ms. Andersen was the Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Prior to joining IUCN, Ms Andersen held various leadership roles at the World Bank and United Nations. Most recently, she was Vice President of the Middle East and North Africa at the World Bank, and previous to that Vice President for Sustainable Development and Head of the CGIAR Fund Council. Throughout Ms Andersen¡¯s 15-year career at the World Bank, her managerial roles focused on water, environment, and sustainable development with special emphasis on Africa and the Middle East. Previous to the World Bank, Ms. Andersen worked at the United Nations for 12 years, starting in the Ãå±±½ûµØSudano-Sahelian Office working on drought and desertification issues, and was then appointed UNDP¡¯s Water and Environment Coordinator for the Arab Region.

Ms Andersen¡¯s educational background includes a BA from London Metropolitan University North and a MA degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London with specialisation in development economics.