International Profile and Post-presidency Career
President Jagdeo was elected as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in September, 2005. He occupied this position until September 2006.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) identified Jagdeo as one of their inaugural Young Global Leaders in 2006.
Time Magazine named Jagdeo as one of their “Heroes of the Environment" in 2008, and he was awarded the United Nations “Champion of the Earth” award in 2010.
In early 2010, the Secretary General of the United Nations asked Jagdeo to serve on the Secretary General’s High Level Advisory Group on Climate Finance.
Jagdeo is a Patron of the Delhi-based World Sustainable Development Forum.
In 2011, Heads of State and other leaders from the world’s rainforest countries asked him to be “Roving Ambassador for the Three Basins" (Amazon, Congo Basin, South East Asia).
In March 2012, the world’s largest and oldest environmental organisation, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), announced that President Jagdeo would become the IUCN High Level Envoy for Sustainable Development in Forest Countries and an IUCN Patron of Nature.
Jagdeo is also a Board member of the Korea-based Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI).
He has been a guest lecturer at Columbia University (New York City, USA), York University (Toronto, Canada), Trent University (Peterborough, Canada), the University of Toronto, United Nations University (Tokyo, Japan), and the University of the West Indies.
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