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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 four 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 four grandchildren.

Abubakar Suleiman is an economist and a banker with over 20 years experience in consulting and financial services. As the Chief Executive Officer of Sterling Bank Plc, his top priority is to optimize the impact of financial intermediation in critical sectors that can catalyze growth and create a future of shared prosperity for all Nigerians. These sectors are Health, Education, Agriculture, Renewable Energy and Transportation, and are at the H.E.A.R.T of Sterling.

Before his current role, he served as an Executive Director and Chief Finance Officer of the bank and was the executive sponsor of the Bank’s non-interest banking business (Sterling Alternative Finance). Abubakar holds a bachelor’s degree (B.Sc) in Economics from the University of Abuja and a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Major Programme Management from Said Business School, University of Oxford.

His previous work experience includes tax advisory at Arthur Andersen and financial markets with Citibank Nigeria. He is a firm believer in the role of efficient markets, emerging technologies, and small businesses in unlocking productivity, improving national competitiveness, and driving inclusive economic growth. He currently serves on the Governing Council of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN), and the Advisory Boards of Lagos Business School (LBS), Enterprise Development Center (EDC) of the Pan Atlantic University and the Bantu Blockchain Foundation.

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Mrs. Monilola Udoh is an ICT enthusiast and technocrat. Educated at the prestigious University of Ife, Ile Ife, Oyo State, where she obtained a bachelor degree in Demography & Social Statistics in 1985. She later earned both Post Graduate Diploma and a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Lagos with distinctions. She has an Advanced Management Programme Certificate (amp26) in 2014 from the Lagos Business School. She is an alumnus of the Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University, UK. She regularly updated her professional and leadership skills through numerous executive programmes from renowned institutions including University of London UK, Harvard University, and Lagos Business School.

She started her career at the Office of Establishments and Management Services in 1991 and later redeployed to the National Planning Commission in 1993.  She was again posted to Head the IT at the Supreme Court in 2002.  In 2005, she was posted to Head IT at the Federal Ministry of Finance and later posted to Head IT, Office of the Civil Service of the Federation in 2009. In 2012, she became a substantive Director and was posted to the Federal Ministry of Communications. During her service at the Ministry of Communications, she served in different positions, among them – Board Member of NITDA and Galaxy Backbone. She attended many ITU, ATU, CTO, GSMA organized fora.

Mrs. Monilola Udoh, rose to the position of Federal Permanent Secretary in 2020 serving first as Permanent Secretary, Federal Civil Service Commission, Federal Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation where she entrenched and accelerated  digitization of government processes  thereafter Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Women Affairs, where she led the professional development of efforts aimed at entrenching gender equality and human centered development at enhancing the status of Women and Girls both locally and at the international arena.

Some of her project portfolio includes among others, serving as a member of the Invigilation Committee for the selection of Federal Permanent Secretaries, and Member of the Committee on the Review of the Oronsanye Report. She is known for her radiant and cheerful disposition, she has also been spotted for her passion towards cost saving measures and ICT advancement in the Civil Service as well in the empowerment and support for girl child education.  She is a role model who always lend her voice to women course.

She is a painstaking and meticulous Civil Servant who demonstrates remarkable intellectual and mental energy in the discharge of her duties.  Her dynamic, adaptive and empathetic leadership capacity has been lauded in many forums with awards. She is a patriotic and level-headed Permanent Secretary, who puts the interest of the service and Nigeria above every other consideration. She is an invited Speaker and Panelist on ICT4D and gender matters.

Mrs. Udoh attended many international conferences, workshops and symposiums in Switzerland, England, France, Dubai, Thailand, Egypt, Scotland, South Korea, USA, Republic of Ireland, UAE, Turkey, Brazil, Sweden, Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Africa, India, Germany, Italy, Spain, Tunisia, Cameroon among others.

Since assuming office as the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Women Affairs, she has impacted his extensive knowledge and experience as a thoroughbred professional on women and girls milieu leveraging ICTs. Her initiatives in are largely responsible for the renewed vigour and focus in the empowerment and support for women and girls as well as the vulnerable group. She has sustained an unprecedented level of professionalism and compliance in gender matters.

Mrs. Udoh was the immediate past Permanent Secretary where she has revolutionized the Ministry through innovation, purposeful leadership, and integrity. Her energetic and quintessential leadership resulted in significant improvements in key STI indices in the Ministry.

She  is a seasoned administrator, ICT  and a gender expert who in the last one year have had a dynamic result-oriented leadership career at  Women Ministry  providing vision, strategy and operational execution to the women, addressing gender issues, women empowerment, women affirmative action, welfarism, programs and operations geared towards female gender mainstreaming in Civil Service , leadership and governance.

Her outstanding professionalism and integrity earned her the highest recognition in the National IT industry: her conferment  with the award of Professional Fellowship of Nigerian Computer Society (FNCS), aside other professional qualifications and membership of different specialist bodies within and outside the country, including, Member Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria, Member, Nigerian Women in IT, Member, Alliance for Affordable Internet, alumnus of Public Service Institute, Member, National Chartered Institute of Personnel Management and others.

The immediate past president approved the conferment of the National Productivity Order of Merit Award (NPOM) Award on her in May 2023 in recognition of her high productivity and hard meritorious service to the nation.

Her dynamic leadership qualities and sterling achievements in the Civil Service earned her national recognition of Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON).

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Mr. David Adejo Andrew, currently the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education joined the Federal Civil Service of Nigeria in December, 1988 and was posted to the Federal Department of Forestry, Maiduguri, Borno State where he learnt the rudiments of the forestry profession.

In the course of his career he has acquired a number of professional qualifications spanning the field of project management, procurement, communications, results based monitoring and evaluation, sustainable development, environmental management, service delivery as well as policy research, formulation and analysis.

Mr Andrew has been exposed to functional skills that seek to break the barriers of knowledge as suitable for the emerging world. He had also served as the Permanent Secretary, Political and Economic Affairs, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation from December 2019 to April, 2022 and Director, Federal Department of Forestry Between July 2018 and December, 2019.

In his over thirty-four years of working as a civil servant, Mr. Andrew had worked in different agencies of government and international development partners including serving as Special Assistant – Infrastructure and Energy – in the administration of late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, and Programme Analyst, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) where he rose to the position of Acting Team Leader Governance and Peace Building Unit.

Upon return to the Federal Ministry of Finance, he led the articulation of a National Single Register and Payment Delivery System for credibly identifying the poor and vulnerable individuals which is being used by the National Social Investment Office (NSIO) in providing social safety nets interventions in the country. As National Coordinator of the World Bank Assisted Youth Employment and Social Support Operation (YESSO), his vast experience in Community Driven Development, ensured the adoption of a Community Based Targeting System and Host Community Based identification Scheme being used for providing support to the poor and vulnerable in all parts of Nigeria and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the North East.
A consummate professional and team player with cosmopolitan disposition, Mr. Andrew is widely travelled, including as a leader of Nigerian delegation on a
number of international Conferences.

A Life Member and Fellow of the Forestry Association of Nigeria. He is happily married with three children.

The UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator (a.i) in Nigeria is Mr. Matthias Schmale. Prior to this position, Mr. Schmale worked with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in different capacities: Acting Chief-of-Staff (August – October 2021) responsible for providing support to the Commissioner-General and Deputy Commissioner-General; Director of Operations (October 2017 – August 2021) leading almost 13,000 strong team in providing essential services and humanitarian aid to more than 1.4 million Palestine refugees in Gaza; Director Representative Office, New York (January 2017 – October 2017); Director for Syria (September 2016 – December 2016); Director Lebanon Affairs (April 2015 – September 2016).

Before his career with the UN, Mr. Schmale worked at senior management level at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) for fifteen years including being the Under Secretary General for six years in Geneva, Switzerland. He is very familiar with trends affecting humanitarian and development work within sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, the Middle-East and Europe.

Mr. Schmale holds a Diploma in economics, University Berlin, 1988; and a Doctor of Philosophy in Development Economics, University Berlin, 1992.

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