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联合国常务副秘书长阿明娜·穆罕默德女士于2015年11月至2016年12月担任担任尼日利亚联邦共和国环境部长，领导尼日利亚气候行动和保护自然环境工作。 

在此之前，穆罕默德女士曾担任前秘书长潘基文的特别顾问，负责2015年后发展规划，主持了《2030年可持续发展议程》达成全球协议以及制定可持续发展目标的进程。 

在加入联合国之前，穆罕默德女士曾任职于尼日利亚连续三届政府，作为担任千年发展目标特别顾问，就贫困、公共部门改革和可持续发展等问题提供建议，并统筹协调年度预算高达10亿美元的千年发展目标干预方案。 

她还是哥伦比亚大学发展实践的兼职教授，并在许多国际咨询委员会和小组任职，包括联合国秘书长2015年后发展议程高级别小组、数据革命促进可持续发展独立专家咨询小组、比尔及梅林达-盖茨基金会全球发展方案、非洲妇女千年倡议、女孩效应、2016年非洲联盟改革和行动援助国际教育权项目。 

穆罕默德女士职业生涯长达35年，初期任职于私营部门，与建筑师和工程师一起负责卫生、教育和公共部门建筑的项目管理。 

达什蒂女士是科威特著名的经济学家，长期倡导妇女权利和性别平等，目前是科威特最高计划发展委员会成员。2012年至2014年，她曾担任科威特计划和发展大臣兼议会事务国务大臣。达什提女士为推动允许科威特妇女投票和参加议会选举的法令发挥了关键作用。2009年5月，她和其他三名女性成为科威特议会首批当选的女议员。 

达什提女士在科威特科学研究所等研究和发展机构担任重要职务，并曾在科威特国民银行和世界银行等重要本土及国际金融和发展机构工作。她还在入侵至解放后期间为科威特紧急和重建方案管理合同。 

她是中东和北非地区全球治理、经济发展和一体化、民主化和妇女赋权等区域和国际政策论坛的定期撰稿人。 

达什提女士拥有约翰•霍普金斯大学（巴尔的摩主校区）人口动态学博士学位、加州州立大学萨克拉门托分校经济与金融硕士学位和加州州立大学奇科分校农业经济学学士学位，且能讲流利的阿拉伯语和英语。 

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced on 14th March 2023, the appointment of Abdallah Al Dardari of Syria as Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant Administrator and Director, Regional Bureau for Arab States of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).  He succeeds Khalida Bouzar of Algeria, who retired after working over three decades in various United Nations agencies and to whom the Secretary-General extends his deepest appreciation for her dedicated years of service.

Prior to this, Mr. Al Dardari served as UNDP Resident Representative in Afghanistan, a post that he has held since 2019, when joining from the World Bank, where he was a Senior Adviser.

He started his professional career in 1986 as an international affairs writer and bureau chief of the pan - Arab newspaper “Al Hayat” and then became the Economist at the London Office of the Arab League.  From 1994 to 1997, he served as Programme Officer in UNDP Syria country office and then joined the Arab Trade Financing Programme/Arab Monetary Fund group as Chief of the Trade Promotion section.  He was appointed in 2003 as Chairman of the State Planning Commission in Syria, a function he held until 2005, when he became Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs.  He further served as Chief Economist with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia in 2011 and later, Deputy Executive Secretary, where he led the efforts for understanding conflict dynamics in the Arab region.

Mr. Al Dardari holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Richmond College in London, UK, a Master's in International Relations from the University of Southern California, US, and an interdisciplinary PhD in post-conflict reconstruction from Università Iuav di Venezia, Italy.  He also studied international relations at the London School of Economics, UK.  He is fluent in Arabic, English and French, with an understanding of Russian and Turkish.