yumkella造句

• Yumkella will serve as Chairman of UN-Energy for two years beginning on 1 January 2008.
• Prior to working for UNIDO, Yumkella was the Minister for Trade, Industry of Sierra Leone from 1994-1995.
• As its Chairman, Yumkella brought a renewed and vital focus to global energy issues and he helped to coordinate the UN response to energy issues.
• In June 2009, Yumkella was appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to chair a new Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change.
• Dr . Yumkella's opinion pieces have appeared in major international newspapers, including The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, and The Guardian.
• In September 2011, Yumkella was appointed by the UN Secretary-General as Co-Chair of the High-level Group on Sustainable Energy for All.
• Yumkella was a Member of the Rio + 20 Principals Group, which played a crucial role in the preparations for the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development.
• Yumkella is a prominent public speaker, who addresses global issues, including poverty reduction, climate change, the Millennium Development Goals, and green industry and renewable energy.
• In recognition of his leadership and his passion for energy and environment-related causes, Yumkella was appointed as Chair of UN-Energy in 2008 by the UN Secretary-General.
• Kamara said union officials had already protested in a meeting with senior government officials and would press their demands Thursday in a second meeting with the minister responsible for fuel distribution, Kandeh Yumkella.
• The group is to be co-chaired by Kandeh Yumkella, the chair of UN Energy and director general of the UN Industrial Development Organisation, and Charles Holliday, chairman of Bank of America ".
• Dr Yumkella is a firm believer in the linkage between " energy poverty " and " income poverty " in developing countries, and promotes the use of renewable energy to improve the productive capacities and welfare of rural communities.
• Contributors included Liberian and Gabonese Presidents Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Omar Bongo Ondimba, Mo Ibrahim, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, Director-General of UNIDO Kandeh Yumkella, British architect David Adjaye, among many others.
• As Co-Chair of this High-level Group, Yumkella helps to guide the initiative aimed at highlighting the need for universal access to energy, as well as increased energy efficiency and enhanced deployment of renewable sources of energy.
• Born in Kambia District in Northern Sierra leone, Yumkella has a B . Sc . from Njala University; a B . Sc . from the Cornell University; and a Ph . D . in Agricultural economics from the University of Illinois.
• The School School s Dean, Peter Henry, provided the opening remarks, and United Nations Under-Secretary-General and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All, Dr . Kandeh Yumkella gave the keynote address.
• On 24 June, 2013, Li was elected by UNIDO's Industrial Development Board to succeed Kandeh Yumkella as Director General of UNIDO . He was appointed Director General by a special session of the Organization's General Conference on 28 June, 2013.
• Dr Yumkella is a strong believer that the most effective way to fight poverty is to strengthen the productive capacities of countries and peoples . he has advocated for pro-poor sustainable industrial and agribusiness development as a means of wealth and job creation and the economic empowerment of the poor.
• In December 2005, Dr . Kandeh K . Yumkella was appointed Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization ( UNIDO ), having previously worked in various high-level policy positions in UNIDO . He was re-appointed for a second four-year term in office in December 2009.
• The United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination ( CEB ), chaired by the United Nations Secretary-General, endorsed the director general of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization ( UNIDO ), Kandeh Yumkella, as the Chairman of UN-Energy at its second regular session on 26-27 October 2007 in New York.