Biography|Inger Andersen — Elected to UNEP in This Hall
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Biography|Inger Andersen — Elected to UNEP in This Hall
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On 20 February 2019 the General Assembly elected Inger Andersen of Denmark as Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme.
The UN press release SG/A/1862 records the election that day, after nomination by Secretary-General António Guterres.
The vote was by acclamation for a four-year term.
She succeeded Erik Solheim of Norway, who had resigned in November 2018 after an audit of official travel.
Joyce Msuya of Tanzania had been acting head since late 2018.
The job is elected in this hall and then has to be taken in Nairobi.
Some secondary pages date the vote 21 February. The UN's own today-line is 20 February.
On 18 January 2023 the Assembly confirmed a second four-year term, running from 15 June 2023 to 14 June 2027.
UNEP is the only UN programme whose global headquarters sit in Africa. The election still happens here, on First Avenue.
Photo: Abir Anwar, UN Headquarters, New York, CC BY 2.0; portrait UN Biodiversity, 2022, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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