President of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote and President of the African Development Bank, Akinwunmi Adesina, have received new appointments from the United Nations.
The duo, alongside 25 other world leaders, were appointed as part of a team to combat malnutrition across the world. António Guterres who is the secretary-general of the United Nations made this appointment as part of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) movement.
SUN said it was committed to fighting malnutrition across the globe as “improving nutrition means driving progress across the host of challenges faced by the world today. “Yet, it remains one of the world’s least-addressed problems.”
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According to a statement released by SUN, the 27 leaders will meet to sustain the continuation of the movement into its third phase which is 2021 to 2025.
See full list of appointees below: 1. Akinwumi ADESINA (Nigeria), president, African Development Bank
- Aliko DANGOTE (Nigeria), chairman and CEO, Dangote Group
- Manal AL ALEM (Jordan), chef
- Reem Ebrahim AL-HASHIMI (UAE), cabinet member and minister of state for international cooperation
- Mercedes ARÁOZ FERNÁNDEZ (Peru), vice president, Republic of Peru
- Inger ASHING (SWEDEN), CEO, Save the Children International
- Cherrie ATILANO (Philippines), founder and CEO, Agrea Agricultural Systems International Inc.
- Alicia BÁRCENA IBARRA, (Mexico), executive secretary, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
- David BEASLEY (USA), executive director, World Food Programme
- Martin CHUNGONG (Cameroon), secretary general, Inter Parliamentary Union
11 Josefa Leonel CORREIA SACKO (Angola), commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, African Union Commission
- Annette DIXON (New Zealand), vice president Human Development, World Bank
- Chris ELIAS (USA), president of Global Development, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Shenggen FAN (China), director general, International Food Policy Research Institute
- Henrietta H. FORE (USA), executive director, UNICEF and chair of the SUN Movement Lead Group
- Sophie HEALY-THOW (Ireland), youth leader
- Daniel KABLAN DUNCAN, (Côte d’Ivoire), vice president Côte d’Ivoire
- Monica Katebe MUSONDA (Zambia), founder and CEO, Java Foods
- Jakaya KIKWETE (Tanzania), former President, United Republic of Tanzania, Kikwete Foundation
- Shinichi KITAOKA (Japan), president, Japan International Cooperation Agency
- Maryam MONSEF (Canada), minister of International Development and minister for Women and Gender Equality, Canada
- David NABARRO (United Kingdom), Sustainable Development Facilitator, 4SD
- Sania NISHTAR (Pakistan), founder and president, Heartfile Foundation
- Inia SERUIRATU (Fiji), minister of Foreign Affairs, Fiji
- Feike SIJBESMA (The Netherlands), CEO, Royal Dutch DSM
- Gunhild Anker STORDALEN (Norway), founder and Ppresident, EAT Foundation
- Gerda VERBURG (The Netherlands), UN Assistant Secretary-General and Coordinator of the SUN Movement.