Mr. Achim Steiner

Administrator
United Nations Development Programme

Achim Steiner currently serves as the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme. Steiner started his career in 1989 at GIZ. After that, he served as Secretary-General of the World Commission on Dams and as Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

In 2006, he was nominated by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to become Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), being unanimously elected by the United Nations General Assembly for a four-year term. His mandate was later extended twice, at the proposal of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. 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.

In 2017, Steiner was appointed by Secretary-General António Guterres to become the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), being elected for a four-year term. In 2018, Guterres also appointed him to co-chair (alongside Maria Ramos) the United Nations Task Force on Digital Financing of Sustainable Development Goals.