Qu Dongyu
Qu Dongyu | |||||||||||||||
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| 屈冬玉 | |||||||||||||||
Dongyu in 2023 | |||||||||||||||
| Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) | |||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 1 August 2019 | |||||||||||||||
| Secretary-General | António Guterres | ||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | José Graziano da Silva | ||||||||||||||
| Vice Minister for Agriculture and Rural Affairs | |||||||||||||||
| In office 2015–2019 | |||||||||||||||
| Minister | Han Changfu | ||||||||||||||
| Vice-Chair of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region | |||||||||||||||
| In office 2011–2015 | |||||||||||||||
| Chairperson | Wang Zhengwei Liu Hui | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | October 29, 1963 Yongzhou, Hunan, China | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Chinese | ||||||||||||||
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Hunan Agricultural University Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences University of Wageningen | ||||||||||||||
| Profession | Biologist | ||||||||||||||
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| Chinese | 屈冬玉 | ||||||||||||||
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Qu Dongyu (Chinese: 屈冬玉; pinyin: Qū Dōngyù; born October 29, 1963) is a Chinese diplomat who took up office as the ninth Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations on 1 August 2019. He is the first Chinese national to head the Organization. Qu won the nomination on the first round of voting at the 41st FAO Conference on 23 June 2019, obtaining 108 of the 191 votes cast by the 194 member countries.