Houlin Zhao
Houlin Zhao | |
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| 赵厚麟 | |
Zhao in 2017 | |
| Secretary-General of the ITU | |
| In office 1 January 2015 – 31 December 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Hamadoun Touré |
| Succeeded by | Doreen Bogdan-Martin |
| Deputy Secretary-General of the ITU | |
| In office 1 January 2007 – 31 December 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Hamadoun Touré |
| Succeeded by | Malcolm Johnson |
| Director of the ITU Standardization Bureau | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 March 1950 Gaoyou, Jiangsu, China |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Alma mater | University of Essex, UK Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China |
| Houlin Zhao | |||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 赵厚麟 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 趙厚麟 | ||||||
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Houlin Zhao (Chinese: 赵厚麟; pinyin: Zhào Hòulín; born 7 March 1950) is a Chinese engineer who served as the Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) from 2015 to 2022. He was first elected at the 2014 Plenipotentiary Conference in Busan, and re-elected at the 2018 Plenipotentiary Conference in Dubai. ITU is the specialized United Nations Agency for Information and Communication Technology (ICT), working on promotion, collaboration, and standardization.