Hajiya Amina J. Ibrahim is the Senior Special Assistant to the President of Nigeria on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a position she was initially appointed to in 2005 and reappointed in 2007.

Hajiya  Ibrahim previously served as the National Coordinator of the Education for All in Nigeria  between 2000 and 2005 where she anchored the production of Nigeria’s Education for All Plan.

She has a background in Project Management and has spent the past 24 years working in Development. She was the National Moderator of CSACEFA which is a civil society group dedicated to advocacy to achieve the EFA Goals.

Her current international assignments include Co-coordinator, Education and Gender Task Force of the MDGs, under the leadership of Professor Jeffrey Sachs and supported by UNDP; Member, Expert Group on Education of the Global Governance Initiative of the World Economic Forum; and Technical Expert on numerous UNESCO activities.  She was recently appointed as an advisor to the Gates Foundation.

She also is a Governor of the Canadian International Development research Center (IDRC) based in Ottawa. In addition, she currently serves on the board of the National Human Rights Commission and AWOMI based in Dakar.

She was Honored with the National award of Officer of the Federal Republic ,OFR in 2006 and inducted into the Nigerian Women’s Hall of Fame in 2007.

 She has four children and lives in Abuja.