Ambassador Fatima Kyari Mohammed is the Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations. In addition to representational functions, her mandate includes developing and maintaining constructive and productive institutional relationships between the African Union and United Nations institutions, supporting and coordinating the activities of the African Group at the United Nations, and ensuring the effective monitoring, implementation, and promotion of African Union Decisions within the African group in multilateral negotiations.

Prior to her appointment, she was a Senior Advisor to the ECOWAS Commission. Her career spans more than two decades with a focus on peace, security, socio-economic development, regional integration, organizational development, and project management in the public and private sectors.

Amb. Mohammed is also the Founder of the LikeMinds Project, a non-profit, non-partisan organization working with vulnerable communities in Nigeria. The organization works with displaced communities from Northeast Nigeria particularly in the area of Women and Youth empowerment and support to Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC).

Her academic background is in peace, security, development, and conflict transformation (University of Innsbruck, Austria), sustainable economic development (UN University of Peace, Costa Rica), and business communication (MBA, European University, Switzerland). She also holds a BA in environmental design from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. She is an Eisenhower Fellow and was awarded the ExxonMobil Distinguished Fellow Award in 2017. In addition to English, Amb. Mohammed speaks fluent French, Hausa, and Kanuri and has a basic knowledge of Arabic and Spanish.

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