Inger Andersen (environmentalist)
Inger Andersen | |
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Andersen in 2022 | |
| Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme | |
| Assumed office 19 July 2019 | |
| Secretary-General | António Guterres |
| Preceded by | Joyce Msuya |
| Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature | |
| In office 12 January 2015 – 19 July 2019 | |
| President | Zhang Xinsheng |
| Preceded by | Julia Marton-Lefèvre |
| Succeeded by | Grethel Aguilar |
| Vice President of the World Bank for the Middle East and North Africa | |
| In office 2011–2015 | |
| President | Jim Yong Kim Robert Zoellick |
| Preceded by | Shamshad Akhtar |
| Succeeded by | Hafez Ghanem |
| Vice President of the World Bank for Sustainable Development | |
| In office 2010–2011 | |
| President | Robert Zoellick |
| Succeeded by | Rachel Kyte |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Inger la Cour Andersen 23 May 1958 Jerup, Denmark |
| Nationality | Danish |
| Alma mater | London Metropolitan University and School of Oriental and African Studies |
| Website | Official biography |
Inger Andersen (born 23 May 1958) is a Danish economist and environmentalist. In February 2019, she was appointed as the executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme.
Prior to her appointment, at UNEP, Andersen was Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Vice President for Sustainable Development at the World Bank and Head of the CGIAR Fund Council and then World Bank Vice President for the Middle East and North Africa.