Inger Andersen (environmentalist)

Inger Andersen
Andersen in 2022
Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme
Incumbent
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 (1958-05-23) 23 May 1958 (age 66) 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.^[1]

Prior to her appointment, at UNEP, Andersen was Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN),^[2] 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.^[3]