Members

Members

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Chair

H.E. Mia Amor Mottley

Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs and Investment, Minister of National Security and the Civil Service, BARBADOS

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Vice-chair

Mr Jakob Forssmed

Minister for Social Affairs and Public Health, SWEDEN

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Members

Mr Mohammed Mousa Alameeri

Assistant Undersecretary for the Food Diversity Sector, Ministry of Climate Change and Environment, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Dr Ahmed Mohammed Obaid Al Saidi

Former Minister of Health, SULTANATE OF OMAN

Ms Beatrice Atim Odwong Anywar

Minister of State for Environment, UGANDA

Ms Anahit Avanesyan

Minister of Health, Republic of ARMENIA

Prof C.O. Onyebuchi Chukwu

Former Minister of Health, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu Alike, NIGERIA

Dr Guilherme Antônio da Costa Júnior

Federal Agricultural Auditor at the Secretariat of Trade and International Relations, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, BRAZIL

Dr Mekdes Daba

Minister of Health, Federal Democratic Republic of ETHIOPIA

Prof Dame Sally Davies

UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance, UNITED KINGDOM

Dr Jamie Jonker

Science and Programme Coordination Committee Chair, International Dairy Federation, USA

Prof Dr Ernst Kuipers

Former Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, NETHERLANDS

Mr Fernando Lugris

Ambassador of the Oriental Republic of URUGUAY

Ms Ummy Mwalimu

Member of Parliament and former Minister of Health United Republic of TANZANIA

Ms Sunita Narain

Director-General, Centre for Science and Environment, INDIA

Dr Maria Panayiotou

Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment Republic of CYPRUS

Mr Yasuhisa Shiozaki

Former Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, Member of the House of Representatives, JAPAN

Prof Lothar H. Wieler

Chair of the Digital Health Cluster, Hasso Plattner Institute and Prof of Digital Global Public Health, GERMANY

Ms Jennifer Zachary

Executive Vice President, General Counsel, MSD, Rahway, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Ex-Officio Members

Dr QU Dongyu

Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Biography

QU Dongyu, who took office on 1 August 2019 as Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, has spent his life working on how to make sure the world is fed.

Before coming to FAO, QU served as China’s Vice Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, where one of his achievements was to promote inclusive and innovative development and make sure information and communication technologies were available in rural areas so that more than 400 million farmers could use their smartphones as a new farming tool.

His vision is founded on the belief that freedom from hunger is a basic human right, and that in the 21st century we have the capability to eradicate chronic food insecurity. While challenges loom, QU’s cardinal principle is that “problems can also be the source of progress”.