Current Affairs - Persons - Discussion

Inger Andersen, Denmark's Economist and Environmentalist, took over as United Nations Environment Programme's (UNEP) Executive Director, headquartered at Nairobi, Kenya, for 4 years. She was nominated for the post by United Nations Secretary-General (UNSG) Antonio Guterres and approved by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in February 2019. She succeeded Joyce Msuya of Tanzania. Andersen was the Director General (DG) of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) between January 2015 and May 2019. She held various leadership roles at the World Bank as Vice President of the Middle East and North Africa, Vice President for Sustainable Development and Head of the Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers Fund Council.