UN Appoints Nigerian as Resident Coordinator in Türkiye

The United Nations Secretary-Basic António Guterres has appointed Mr. Babatunde A. Ahonsi of Nigeria because the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Türkiye, with the host Authorities’s approval.…CONTINUE READING

Mr. Babatunde A. Ahonsi has 26 years of expertise in worldwide growth acquired inside and outdoors the United Nations.

Previous to his present appointment, he served because the UN Resident Coordinator in Sierra Leone the place he coordinated and facilitated the UN’s operational actions for growth within the nation.
Throughout his tenure he has led the UN nation crew and ensured system-wide accountability on the bottom for the UN Sustainable Improvement Cooperation Framework. He has additionally coordinated UN assist to Sierra Leone in its implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the UN Secretary Basic’s Prevention Agenda.

Previous to this, he served UN Resident Coordinator in China from June-September 2020. As well as, he served as UNFPA Consultant in China/Nation Director for Mongolia from January 2017-June 2020, and as UNFPA Consultant in Ghana from 2014-2016.

Between 1997 and 2014, he held senior administration positions with the Ford Basis (masking West Africa) and Inhabitants Council (masking Nigeria) overseeing reproductive well being, girls’s empowerment, and youth growth programmes and initiatives. He had additionally lectured at federal universities in Ilorin, Calabar, and Lagos, Nigeria through the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties.

Mr. Ahonsi holds a BSc (First Class Honors) diploma in Sociology from the College of Lagos, Nigeria; and a Ph.D. in Inhabitants Research from the London Faculty of Economics and Political Science, College of London, England.

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