The Director-General is the Organization’s top manager.

A Director-General is elected every six years by the Member Governments during the FAO Conference. What’s the FAO Conference?

The current Director-General, Dr Jacques Diouf of Senegal, was elected on 8 November 1993 and began a six-year term in January 1994. He was re-elected to a second term in November 1999, and to a third in November 2005.