| Tijjani Muhammad-Bande | |
| Honorific Prefix: | Professor |
| Office: | President of the 74th UN General Assembly |
| Term Start: | 17 September 2019 |
| Term End: | 15 September 2020 |
| Predecessor: | María Fernanda Espinosa |
| Successor: | Volkan Bozkir |
| Office1: | Vice President of the 71st UN General Assembly |
| President1: | Peter Thomson |
| Term Start1: | September 2016 |
| Term End1: | September 2017 |
| Office2: | Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations |
| President2: | Muhammadu Buhari |
| Term Start2: | 3 May 2017 |
| Predecessor2: | Joy Ogwu |
| Office3: | Director General of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies |
| Term Start3: | April 2010 |
| Term End3: | February 2016 |
| Office4: | Vice Chancellor of the Usman Danfodio University |
| Term Start4: | 2004 |
| Term End4: | 2009 |
| Birth Name: | Tijjani Muhammad-Bande |
| Birth Date: | 7 December 1957 |
| Birth Place: | Zagga, Northern Region, British Nigeria (now in Kebbi State, Nigeria) |
| Nationality: | Nigerian |
| Children: | 4 |
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Tijjani Muhammad-Bande (born 7 December 1957) is a Nigerian diplomat, academic and political scientist[1] who was the president of the United Nations General Assembly 74th session from 17 September 2019 to 15 September 2020.[2] [3] [4] He previously served as vice president of the 71st session from September 2016 to September 2017.[5] [6] He has served as Nigeria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations since 2017.
From 2010 to 2016, he was the director general of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies in Kuru, Nigeria, and was the vice chancellor of the Usmanu Danfodiyo University from 2004 to 2009.[7] [8]
In January 2021, he was re-listed by President Buhari as the permanent representative to the United Nations, New York.[9]
Muhammad-Bande was born and educated in Zagga, a town in present-day Kebbi State.[10]
He attended Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria where he received a bachelor's degree in political science in 1979 before proceeding to Boston University, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in political science in 1981. Muhammad-Bande received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Toronto in 1987.
In the 1980s, he taught at the Usman Danfodio University in Sokoto and rose to the rank of professor in 1998. Between 2000 and 2004, Bande served as the director-general of the African Training and Research Centre in Administration for Development in Tangier, Morocco.[11] Between 2004 and 2009, he served as vice chancellor of Usman Danfodio University before being appointed director-general of Nigeria's National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, a position he held from 2010 to 2016.[12]
He is married with four children.[13]