Achim Steiner

Achim Steiner ( born 1961 in Carazinho, Brazil ) is a German -Brazilian politician and Under Secretary General at the United Nations. He currently heads as Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

Life

Achim Steiner, born in Brazil and grew up, studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford. At the University of London, a Master's Degree in Economics followed and regional planning. Studies at the German Development Institute (DIE) in Berlin and at the Harvard Business School followed. After studying Steiner had first worked with environmental organizations at the local level, before he began his work in international environment.

Steiner was a first for the world's largest conservation organization IUCN in Washington, DC and Asia, and in 1998 Secretary General of the World Commission on Dams ( WCD) in Cape Town. In 2001 he returned to the IUCN Director General of the World Conservation Union IUCN, based in Gland, Switzerland back.

On 15 March 2006, Achim Steiner was nominated in Nairobi by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan as the successor of Klaus Töpfer for the Office of the Executive Director of UNEP and a day later elected by the UN General Assembly. His office, he joined on 15 June 2006. On 22 April 2010 Steiner was confirmed for another four years in office. The second appeal period began on 15 June 2010 and ends on 14 June 2014.