{"id":2506,"date":"2019-06-22T02:31:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T02:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=2506"},"modified":"2019-06-22T02:31:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T02:31:55","slug":"inger-andersen-is-appointed-as-the-new-executive-director-of-the-united-nations-environment-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/inger-andersen-is-appointed-as-the-new-executive-director-of-the-united-nations-environment-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Inger Andersen is appointed as the new Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Inger Andersen of\nDenmark&nbsp;<\/strong>is appointed\nas the&nbsp;<strong>new Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme\n(UNEP).<\/strong>She was\nnominated to the post by<strong>&nbsp;UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres.<\/strong>&nbsp;The nomination was approved by\nacclamation by the<strong>&nbsp;UN General Assembly&nbsp;<\/strong>on 20 February. &nbsp;She will serve for a period of four\nyears.<br>\n<br>\n<strong>Ms.Inger\nAndersen:<\/strong><br>\nMs Andersen ia a former&nbsp;<strong>Director General of the\nIUCN&nbsp;<\/strong>with over\nthirty years of experience in the field of international development. She has\nheld various leadership positions at the World Bank (with almost 15 years of\nexperience) and United Nations. She was the Vice President of the Middle East\nand North Africa Region at the World Bank from 2011 to 2015 and Vice President\nfor Sustainable Development and Head of the Consultative Group of International\nAgricultural Research Fund Council from 2010 to 2011.&nbsp;<br>\n<br>\n<strong>United\nNations Environment Programme (UNEP):<\/strong><br>\n<strong>\u2666 Headquarters:<\/strong>&nbsp;Nairobi, Kenya<br>\n<strong>\u2666 Head:<\/strong>&nbsp;Inger Andersen<br>\n<strong>\u2666 Director:<\/strong>&nbsp;Erik Solheim<br>\n<strong>\u2666 Founded on:<\/strong>&nbsp;1972, Nairobi, Kenya<br>\n<strong>\u2666&nbsp;<\/strong>UNEP aims to provide leadership and encourage\npartnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling\nnations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that\nof future generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inger Andersen of Denmark&nbsp;is appointed as the&nbsp;new Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).She was nominated to the post by&nbsp;UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres.&nbsp;The nomination was approved by acclamation by the&nbsp;UN General Assembly&nbsp;on 20 February. &nbsp;She will serve for a period of four years. Ms.Inger Andersen: Ms Andersen ia a former&nbsp;Director General of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2508,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions\/2508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}