United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres on Friday announced the appointment of Ahunna Eziakonwa of Nigeria as Special Adviser on Africa.
She succeeds Cristina Duarte of the Republic of Cabo Verde,
to whom the Secretary General is grateful for her commitment and dedicated
service to the Organisation.
Eziakonwa brings nearly three decades of United Nations (UN)
leadership to her new role.
In her current role as UN Assistant Secretary General,
Assistant Administrator and Director, Regional Bureau for Africa, United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP), she oversees the organisation’s support
to 46 African countries in pursuing Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development
Goals, as well as the African Union’s Agenda 2063.
Since 2018, she has helped shape UNDP’s strategic approach
to economic and political development across the continent.
Eziakonwa’s experience spans the full breadth of UN work in
Africa.
She has served as UN Resident Coordinator, Humanitarian
Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in three countries – Ethiopia,
Uganda and Lesotho – where she coordinated humanitarian action, development
strategy and political engagement.
As Chief of the Africa Section at the UN Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) in New York, she managed
humanitarian operations across 15 African countries and held senior posts in
Liberia and Sierra Leone during critical periods in those nations.
At UN Headquarters, she contributed to peacekeeping and
political analysis and strategic communications pertaining to UN engagement in
Africa, working with the UN Departments of Peacekeeping Operations, Political
Affairs and Public Information.
Prior to joining the UN, she held positions in several
African civil society organisations.
Eziakonwa holds a Master’s degree in International Affairs
with a focus on African economic and political development from Columbia
University, New York, USA, and a Bachelor of Arts in Pedagogy, English and
Literary Studies from the University of Benin, Nigeria.
In addition to her native Igbo and English, she speaks
fluent Yoruba and has a working knowledge of French.
NAN
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