Babatunde Osotimehin

Babatunde Osotimehin , a national of Nigeria, was appointed onNovember 2010 as the new Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, for a fouryear term. He was reappointed to this position onAugust 2014 He assumed the position onJanuary 2011 and became the organisations fourth Executive Director. He holds the rank of UnderSecretaryGeneral of the United Nations. Previously, he was Nigerias Minister of Health. He left this office in March 2010 when Acting President Goodluck Jonathan dissolved his cabinet.

Babatunde Osotimehin was born on February 1949 in Ogun State. He completed his medical studies at the University of Ibadan in 1972 and received a doctorate in medicine from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, in 1979. Prior to his appointment at UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, Dr. Osotimenhin served as the Minister of Health of Nigeria. Before that, Dr. Osotimehin was the DirectorGeneral of the Nigerian National Agency for the Control of AIDS, an agency that coordinates all HIV and AIDS work in a country with more than 150 million people. As chairman of the National Action Committee on AIDS he oversaw the development of systems that, today, manage more than US1billion. During his tenure as Project Manager for the WorldBank assisted HIVAIDS Programme Development Project from 20022008, he achieved great success.

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