Adnan Z. Amin

Adnan Z. Amin
Director-General of the IRENA
Assumed office
4 April 2011
Preceded by New Position
Personal details
Born 1957 (age 60–61)
Kenya
Alma mater University of Sussex

Adnan Z. Amin (born 1957) is a Kenyan diplomat and a development economist with a specialty in sustainable development.[1] He is the current and the first Director-General of the Abu Dhabi-based intergovernmental organisation, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).[2][3] Amin was elected in April 2011, having previously served as the Agency’s Interim Director-General in 2010.[4] Prior to his appointment at the IRENA, he worked in a variety of senior positions within the United Nations system in areas relating to in renewable energy, sustainable development and environmental policy. He served as the Director of the New York Office of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Special Representative of the UNEP Executive Director.[1][4][5][6]

Biography

Adnan Z. Amin was born in Kenya in 1957.[7] He attended the University of Sussex where he received Master’s degree in development studies.[1][7]

In his three-decade career, Amin was the Head of the UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) Secretariat.[5] In this role, he spearheaded oversight in the Secretariat supporting the CEB in its UN system-wide policy co-ordination under the UN Secretary-General and comprising the Executive Heads of UN System organisations, during a period characterized the roll-out of initiatives on climate change and the 2008/09 financial crisis. He was the head of the Secretariat for the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on UN System-wide Coherence relating to development, environment and humanitarian assistance during the administrations of Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon.[1][5][6] During his tenure, the UN bureaucracy was reformed under the “One UN” and “Delivering as One” module, proposed by a panel consultants. Earlier, Adnan Amin was the Director of the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) New York Office, and as Special Representative of the UNEP Executive Director.[6] At the UNEP, he was instrumental in the ministerial-level intergovernmental process to review International Environmental Governance and UNEP’s participation in the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development.

At IRENA, Adnan Amin has led efforts to make the Agency a worldwide authority on renewables and cleantech. Country membership at IRENA is almost at near-universal level. The Agency now has 156 Members (155 States and the European Union) and an additional 24 states in accession, providing support to countries in their transition to a sustainable energy future through the adoption of practices, policies, technologies, resources and financial knowledge relating to the achievement of sustainable development, energy access, energy security and low-carbon economic growth and prosperity.[1][7] Under Amin’s leadership, IRENA has become a core patron in the implantation process for the Paris Agreement, the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the G7 and G20.[1] Adnan Amin was re-elected in January 2015 to his second term as Director-General of the IRENA.[1]

Amin served as a Trustee and a Member of the Board of Directors of the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, a biodiversity information institution located in Cambridge, UK.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Director General Biography". www.irena.org. Archived from the original on 16 February 2018. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
  2. ↑ http://www.washingtontimes.com, The Washington Times. "Adnan Z. Amin". www.washingtontimes.com. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  3. ↑ "Columbia | SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy | Adnan Amin - The Future of Renewable Energy (10/1/18)". energypolicy.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-06.
  4. 1 2 Hub, IISD's SDG Knowledge. "IRENA PrepCom Selects Adnan Amin as Director-General Designate | News | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD". Retrieved 2018-08-26.
  5. 1 2 3 "Adnan Z. Amin". European utility week. 2017-08-16. Retrieved 2018-08-26.
  6. 1 2 3 "Adnan Z. Amin | HuffPost". www.huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2018-08-26.
  7. 1 2 3 "[Press Releases] Mr. Adnan Z. Amin, Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) to visit ." Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (in Japanese). Retrieved 2018-08-26.
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