Wasiirka Arimaha Dibadda ee Kenya oo Gabar Soomaaliyeed oo kasoo jeedda Beesha Dhulbahante loo Magacaabay Akhri Taariikhdeedda

Ambassador Amina Mohamed is a former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations and Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme at Nairobi.

She is a former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs and former Ambassador of Kenya to the United Nations at Geneva.

Amb. Amina Mohamed is a lawyer and diplomat by profession and has served in the public service since 1985.

She has served in the Ministries of Local Government, Foreign Affairs and Justice.

Amb. Mohamed is married to Mr. Ahmed and has two children.

Nominee for Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Amina Mohamed Jibril She is the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Kenya (born 1961), a national of Kenya and Originally hails from the Somalia , was appointed the Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 13 May 2011.[1] In this position she is charged with advancing the Medium-Term Strategy of the UNEP and its reforms, and providing substantive input to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development 2012.
Mohamed served as the Permanent Secretary in Kenya’s Ministry of Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs from 2008–2011, where she facilitated the political, legal and constitutional reform process. Between 2000 and 2006, she served as the Permanent Representative of Kenya to the United Nations in Geneva. During this time, she became the first woman to chair the General Council of the World Trade Organization. She was also the first African and the first woman to be elected Chair of the Council for the International Organization for Migration.
Mohamed obtained her master’s degree in international law from Kyiv State University, and studied at the post-graduate level at the University of Oxford and the Kenya School of Law.
===Who is really Ambassador Amina C. Mohamed?’===
Ambassador Amina Mohamed is a committed international civil servant who has had a distinguished career in both public and foreign service. She has served in strategic government positions and been elected to key international positions. Her work experience in over twenty six years covers a broad spectrum of domestic and international assignments. She rose through the ranks in Kenya’s diplomatic service to the highest level of Ambassador/Permanent Representative Kenya Mission to the UN at Geneva from 2000-2006. She served as Director, Europe and the Commonwealth and Director Diaspora from mid-2006-2007 and was Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs in 2008. Since July, 2011 she has served as United Nations Assistant Secretary General and Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme.
She is an excellent strategist and visionary anticipating the management needs of every organization she has been involved with. With her profound knowledge of the WTO and her strong managerial skills, Ambassador Amina Mohamed has all the required competencies to lead the WTO into the future.
She is fluent in English, Russian, Swahili and has a working knowledge of French.
===A Distinguished African Diplomat===
Ambassador Amina Mohamed has had a distinguished diplomatic career since 1986 and rising through the ranks to become Ambassador/Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission to the Republic of Kenya at Geneva in 2000. As the Permanent Representative, she represented Kenya in the UN system, and the WTO among other international organizations. Her strong interpersonal skills in negotiations, developed during her career in the multilateral fora, enabled her to effectively articulate Kenya’s interests in the WTO. She participated in drafting and interpretation of International Trade Treaties.
===An Expert in Public Sector and Institutional Reform===
Ambassador Amina Mohamed was instrumental in restructuring, reforming and rationalizing the Kenya’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Missions abroad. She chaired the team that drafted Kenya’s foreign trade policy focusing on economic and commercial diplomacy. As Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs, she supervised the drafting, negotiation, national referendum and promulgation of the new Constitution of Kenya 2008- 2010, including institutional reforms on elections, ethics and integrity, access to justice and the development of a national cohesion policy. At UNEP, Ambassador Amina Mohamed has spearheaded the implementation of UNEP’s Medium Term Strategy and Programmes as well as on-going reforms. Most recently she has been actively engaged with intergovernmental processes in implementing the RIO+20 outcomes and support efforts to enhance the funding base of the organization.
===A Distinguished Legal Practitioner===
Through her experience in the multilateral fora, she has provided legal advice during Kenya’s tenure in the Security Council, negotiations in the WTO, particularly in launching the Doha trade talks and contributed texts in the Kenya’s constitution where foreign trade has been integrated with Foreign Affairs.
===Result-oriented Team Leader===
Throughout her career, Ambassador Amina Mohamed has demonstrated solid leadership and proven negotiations skills. She chaired three key WTO bodies: the Dispute Settlement Body, the Trade Policy Review Body and the General Council during her tenure in Geneva. During which important decisions and recommendations were made. Under her leadership as the General Council Chair, the accession of Saudi Arabia was concluded; she guided the negotiations and preparation for the 2005 Hong Kong Ministerial Conference where substantial progress was made on Doha Development Agenda; the LDC’s waiver on market access was successfully concluded and members agreed to amend the TRIPS agreement to legally allow WTO members without capacity to produce pharmaceutical products to import and address public health concerns. At UNEP she has been instrumental in enhancing the capacity of the institution and seeking additional resources to initiate new goals and action plans.
===Key Positions Held===