Political Leaders: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Leaders of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

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Directors-general

John Boyd Orr            Oct 1945 - 14 Apr 1948 (†1971) United Kingdom
Norris E. Dodd        14 Apr 1948 - 31 Dec 1953 (†1968) United States
Philip V. Cardon       1 Jan 1954 -    Apr 1956 (†1965) United States
Herbert Broadley         Apr 1956 -    Nov 1956 (†1983) United Kingdom (acting)
Binay Ranjan Sen         Nov 1956 - 31 Dec 1967 (†1993) India
Addeke Hendrik Boerma  1 Jan 1968 - 31 Dec 1975 (†1992) Netherlands
Édouard Saouma         1 Jan 1976 - 31 Dec 1993 (†2012) Lebanon
Jacques Diouf          1 Jan 1994 - 31 Dec 2011 (†2019) Senegal
José Graziano da Silva 1 Jan 2012 - 31 Jul 2019         Brazil
Qu Dongyu              1 Aug 2019 -                     People's Republic of China