Members
Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs and Investment, Minister of National Security and the Civil Service, BARBADOS
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Assistant Undersecretary for the Food Diversity Sector, Ministry of Climate Change and Environment, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Former Minister of Health, SULTANATE OF OMAN
Minister of State for Environment, UGANDA
Minister of Health, Republic of ARMENIA
Former Minister of Health, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu Alike, NIGERIA
Federal Agricultural Auditor at the Secretariat of Trade and International Relations, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, BRAZIL
Minister of Health, Federal Democratic Republic of ETHIOPIA
UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance, UNITED KINGDOM
Science and Programme Coordination Committee Chair, International Dairy Federation, USA
Former Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, NETHERLANDS
Ambassador of the Oriental Republic of URUGUAY
Member of Parliament and former Minister of Health United Republic of TANZANIA
Director-General, Centre for Science and Environment, INDIA
Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment Republic of CYPRUS
Former Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, Member of the House of Representatives, JAPAN
Chair of the Digital Health Cluster, Hasso Plattner Institute and Prof of Digital Global Public Health, GERMANY
Executive Vice President, General Counsel, MSD, Rahway, New Jersey, U.S.A.
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”.