Mr. Minoru Takada
Team Leader (Sustainable Energy), Division for Sustainable Development Goals, UN DESA
Minoru Takada is Team Leader on Energy at the Division for Sustainable Development Goals, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, in New York. He also serves as Head of the Secretariat of UN-Energy, the UN’s interagency coordination mechanism in the field of energy. Prior to this position, he was Senior Policy Advisory on Energy at the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the Sustainable Energy Programme at the United Nations Development Programme. Originally trained to be a nuclear engineer, his career changed forever after he worked as a community organizer and secondary school teacher in a remote village without electricity in Ghana for a few years in early 90’s.