Qu Dongyu

Qu Dongyu
屈冬玉
Dongyu in 2023
Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Assumed office
1 August 2019
Secretary-GeneralAntónio Guterres
Preceded byJosé Graziano da Silva
Vice Minister for Agriculture and Rural Affairs
In office
2015–2019
MinisterHan Changfu
Vice-Chair of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region
In office
2011–2015
ChairpersonWang Zhengwei
Liu Hui
Personal details
Born (1963-10-29) October 29, 1963 (age 61)
Yongzhou, Hunan, China[1]
Nationality Chinese
Political partyChinese Communist Party
Alma materHunan Agricultural University
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
University of Wageningen
ProfessionBiologist
Chinese name
Chinese屈冬玉
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinQū Dōngyù
Wade–GilesChʻü Tung-yü
IPA[tɕʰý tʊ́ŋŷ]
Xiang
IPATʼy1 Dong1y4

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.[2] He is married and has one daughter.[3][4]

  1. ^ "ChinaVitae profile – Qu Dongyu". Archived from the original on 2020-05-07. Retrieved 2020-08-12.
  2. ^ Lynch, Colum; Gramer, Robbie (October 23, 2019). "Outfoxed and Outgunned: How China Routed the U.S. in a U.N. Agency". Foreign Policy. Archived from the original on October 25, 2019. Retrieved 2019-10-26.
  3. ^ "Qu Dongyu becomes first Chinese to head UN food agency FAO". France 24. 2019-06-23. Archived from the original on 18 August 2019. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  4. ^ "FAO, il cinese Qu Dongyu assume l'incarico di Direttore Generale: "Saremo più dinamici, trasparenti e inclusivi"". La Repubblica. 2019-08-05. Archived from the original on 2020-08-06. Retrieved 18 August 2019.