Members
WHO / Sergey Volkov
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Credits
Interim Chair
Members
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
Dr Mekdes Daba
Minister of Health, Federal Democratic Republic of ETHIOPIA
Dr Jamie Jonker
Chief Science officer for the National Milk Producers Federation USA
Prof Dr Ernst Kuipers
Former Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, NETHERLANDS
Mr Fernando Lugris
Director General for Cultural Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, URUGUAY
Ms Ummy Mwalimu
Member of Parliament and former Minister of Health United Republic of TANZANIA
Dr Maria Panayiotou
Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment Republic of CYPRUS
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”.