Achim Steiner
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Born | 17 May 1961 |
Nationality | Brazilian, German |
Alma mater | Worcester College (Oxford), School of Oriental and African Studies, Harvard Business School |
Achim Steiner is an deep state functionary, of Brazilian-German ancestry, who in 2017 became administrator of the United Nations Development Programme. Before joining UNDP, he held various administrative jobs. He was Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Secretary-General of the World Commission on Dams.
“In some low- and middle-income countries, less than 1 per cent of the population is vaccinated – this is contributing to a two-track recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic It’s time for swift, collective action – this new COVID-19 Vaccine Equity Dashboard will provide Governments, policymakers and international organisations with unique insights to accelerate the global delivery of vaccines and mitigate the devastating socio-economic impacts of the pandemic.”
Achim Steiner (22 July 2021) [1]
Contents
Background
The son of a German farmer who had emigrated to Rio Grande do Sul,[2] Achim Steiner was born in Brazil in 1961 and holds German as well as Brazilian citizenship. He went to school in Carazinho and at Dover College.[3] He obtained a bachelor's degree from Worcester College of the University of Oxford and a master's degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London, specializing in development economics, regional planning, international development and environmental policy. He also studied at the German Development Institute and the Harvard Business School.[4]
Career
Steiner started his career in 1989 at the Rural Regional Development Department, GIZ, in Germany. From 1991 to 1997 he worked for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Southern Africa and Washington, D.C. He was Chief Technical Adviser of the Mekong River Commission (1997–1998) before becoming Secretary-General of the World Commission on Dams. In 2001 he returned to IUCN as Director-General.[5]
United Nations Environment Programme, 2006–2016
Acting on the nomination of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the United Nations General Assembly in 2006 unanimously elected Steiner Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for a four-year term. At the time, he was not nominated by a Member State, but prevailed over candidates such as Børge Brende of Norway and Rajendra K. Pachauri of India.[6] His mandate was later extended twice, this time on the proposal of the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
The Secretary-General appointed Steiner as Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON), where he served from March 2009 to May 2011. Within the UN system he also chaired the High-level Committee on Programmes of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination and the United Nations Environment Management Group. On 3 May 2016, Ban Ki-moon announced that the post of Executive Director of UNEP would be taken over by Erik Solheim in June 2016.[7]
Oxford Martin School, 2016–2017
Upon leaving UNEP, Steiner was appointed director of the Oxford Martin School, a post he took up in September 2016.[8] In addition to his role at the University of Oxford, Steiner was appointed Envoy of the Chair of the Platform on Disaster Displacement by the Federal Government of Germany in October 2016.[9]
In late 2015, Reuters reported that Steiner was one of three candidates shortlisted to succeed António Guterres as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, alongside Helle Thorning-Schmidt of Denmark, Jasmine Whitbread of the United Kingdom, and Filippo Grandi of Italy;[10][11] the post eventually went to Grandi.[12]
United Nations Development Programme, 2017–present
In April 2017, following consultations with the Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Secretary-General António Guterres appointed Steiner as the programme's new Administrator.[13] On 19 April 2017, the United Nations General Assembly confirmed him for a four-year term.
In November 2018, Guterres also appointed Steiner to co-chair (alongside Maria Ramos) the United Nations' Task Force on Digital Financing of Sustainable Development Goals.[14]
Other activities
- Generation Unlimited, Member of the Board (since 2018)[15]
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Ex-Officio Member of the Committee of Cosponsoring Organizations (since 2017)[16]
- International Gender Champions (IGC), Member (since 2017)[17]
- OECD/UNDP Tax Inspectors Without Borders (TIWB), Co-Chair of the Governing Board (since 2017)[18]
- German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE), Member (2016-2017, appointed ad personam by Chancellor Angela Merkel)[19]
- International Olympic Committee (IOC), Member of the Sustainability and Legacy Commission[20]
- Agora Verkehrswende, Chairman of the Council[21][22]
- Platform on Disaster Displacement, Chair of the Advisory Committee[23]
- China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED), International Vice-Chair
- Earth Day Network, Member of the Global Advisory Committee[24]
- The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), Member of the Advisory Board[25]
- European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Member of the Environmental Advisory Council (ENVAC)
Events Participated in
Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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Munich Security Conference/2018 | 12 February 2018 | 14 February 2018 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 54th Munich Security Conference |
Munich Security Conference/2022 | 18 February 2022 | 20 February 2022 | Germany Munich Bavaria | Slightly less than 1/3 of the 664 of the participants have pages here |
Munich Security Conference/2024 | 16 February 2024 | 18 February 2024 | Germany Munich Bavaria | Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists - in their own bubble, far from the concerns of their subjects |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2004 | 21 January 2004 | 25 January 2004 | Switzerland | 2068 billionaires, CEOs and their politicians and "civil society" leaders met under the slogan Partnering for Prosperity and Security. "We have the people who matter," said World Economic Forum Co-Chief Executive Officer José María Figueres. |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2007 | 24 January 2007 | 28 January 2007 | Switzerland | Only the 449 public figures listed of ~2200 participants |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2008 | 23 January 2008 | 27 January 2008 | Switzerland | At the 2008 summit, Klaus Schwab called for a coordinated approach, where different 'stakeholders' collaborate across geographical, industrial, political and cultural boundaries." |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2009 | 23 January 2009 | 27 January 2009 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | Chairman Klaus Schwab outlined five objectives driving the Forum’s efforts to shape the global agenda, including letting the banks that caused the 2008 economic crisis keep writing the rules, the climate change agenda, over-national government structures, taking control over businesses with the stakeholder agenda, and a "new charter for the global economic order". |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2013 | 23 January 2013 | 27 January 2013 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2500 mostly unelected leaders met to discuss "leading through adversity" |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2014 | 22 January 2014 | 25 January 2014 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2604 guests in Davos considered "Reshaping The World" |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2015 | 21 January 2015 | 24 January 2015 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | Attended by a lot of people. This page lists only the 261 "Public Figures". |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2016 | 20 January 2016 | 23 January 2016 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | Attended by over 2500 people, both leaders and followers, who were explained how the Fourth Industrial Revolution would changed everything, including being a "revolution of values". |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2017 | 17 January 2017 | 20 January 2017 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | 2950 known participants, including prominently Bill Gates. "Offers a platform for the most effective and engaged leaders to achieve common goals for greater societal leadership." |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2019 | 22 January 2019 | 25 January 2019 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | "The reality is that we are in a Cold War [against China] that threatens to turn into a hot one." |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2020 | 21 January 2020 | 24 January 2020 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting. |
WEF/Annual Meeting/2023 | 16 January 2023 | 20 January 2023 | World Economic Forum Switzerland | The theme of the meeting was "Cooperation in a Fragmented World" |
References
- ↑ https://www.who.int/news/item/22-07-2021-vaccine-inequity-undermining-global-economic-recovery
- ↑ https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/achim-steiner-we-havent-even-begun-to-understand-the-damage-we-are-bringing-to-bear-on-the-7627545.html
- ↑ https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/achim-steiner-we-havent-even-begun-to-understand-the-damage-we-are-bringing-to-bear-on-the-7627545.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20141105013355/http://ssc.undp.org/content/ssc/services/expo/2013/the_expo/highlevel_opening_ceremony/biography_achim_steiner.html
- ↑ http://www.weforum.org/contributors/achim-steiner
- ↑ https://www.un.org/press/en/2006/sg2108.doc.htm
- ↑ http://www.unep.org/newscentre/Default.aspx?DocumentID=27074&ArticleID=36162&l=en
- ↑ http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/news/20160224-new-director
- ↑ http://disasterdisplacement.org/about-us/the-envoy-of-the-chair/
- ↑ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-un-refugees-guterres-idUSKCN0S232Q20151008
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/world/veteran-italian-diplomat-at-un-to-get-top-refugee-post.html
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/12/un-appoints-filippo-grandi-as-next-high-commissioner-for-refugees
- ↑ https://www.un.org/press/en/2017/sga1724.doc.htm
- ↑ https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/personnel-appointments/2018-11-29/task-force-digital-financing-sustainable-development
- ↑ http://www.genunlimited.org/index_news-and-events.html World leaders unite under new initiative to provide quality education and training for young people
- ↑ https://www.unaids.org/en/aboutunaids/unaidsleadership
- ↑ https://genderchampions.com/champions Members
- ↑ http://www.tiwb.org/about/governing-board/ Governing Board
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20161104141453/http://www.nachhaltigkeitsrat.de/presseinformationen/pressemitteilungen/detailansicht/artikel/bundeskanzlerin-beruft-rat-fuer-nachhaltige-entwicklung-neu/
- ↑ https://www.olympic.org/sustainability-and-legacy-commission
- ↑ http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/about/director/
- ↑ https://www.agora-verkehrswende.de/ueber-uns/rat/
- ↑ http://disasterdisplacement.org/about-us/the-envoy-of-the-chair/
- ↑ http://www.earthday.org/about/global-advisory-committee/
- ↑ http://www.teebweb.org/about/teeb-advisory/