Jacques Diouf

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Jacques Diouf (2008)

Jacques Diouf ( August 1, 1938 in Saint-Louis-du-Sénégal - August 17, 2019 in Paris ) was a Senegalese diplomat . From 1994 to 2011 he was Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), based in Rome .

Life

Diouf completed his studies in Senegal, France and the United States. In 1978 he was appointed State Secretary for Research by Léopold Sédar Senghor . From 1983 to 1984 he was a member of the National Assembly for his hometown of Saint-Louis. He then worked at the International Development Research Center in Ottawa and the West African Central Bank (BCEAO) in Dakar. In 1991 he was sent to the UN headquarters in New York as his country's UN ambassador. In 1993 he was elected Director General of the FAO and took over that role in early 1994. He served three terms of six years each. Under his leadership, the FAO sought collaboration with the private sector and celebrities to stage spectacular campaigns on World Food Day. His aim was to make the world population aware that resources are finite. On the occasion of the famine in the Horn of Africa in 2011 , his last year as FAO Director General, he said he could no longer bear the pictures of starving children: “This is something we would not expect our children to do. I don't see why we should expect other parents' children to do it. "

Diouf was married and had five children. He died in August 2019 at the age of 81.

obituary

The UN agency praised its longstanding Director General as a "tireless advocate of the fight against poverty, hunger and malnutrition". Senegal's President Macky Sall tweeted: "With the death of our compatriot Jacques Diouf, Senegal has lost one of its bravest sons".

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Africa News: Former FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf passes away , August 18, 2019
  2. ^ ORF (Vienna): Ex-head of the UN World Food Organization dead , August 18, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Diouf, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Senegalese agronomist, longtime director general of the FAO
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Louis-du-Sénégal
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 2019
Place of death Paris