Houlin Zhao of China Re-elected as ITU Secretary-General
Houlin Zhao of China Re-elected as ITU Secretary-General
Houlin Zhao of China Re-elected as ITU Secretary-General
Member States of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have re-elected Houlin Zhao of China as ITU Secretary-General during the Union’s 20th Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-18) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
The election took place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, during the Plenary session of the PP-18 conference on Thursday. Zhao won the position with 176 votes, from 178 ballot papers deposited. He contested the position unopposed.
Mr Zhao, an information and communication technology (ICT) engineer who has served in a variety of senior management positions at ITU, will begin his second, and last, four-year term on 1 January 2019.
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“We continue to connect the unconnected,” says Zhao. “We are strengthening partnerships to implement our common vision of a connected world, where information and communication technology is a source for good for everyone everywhere.”
Prior to first being elected as ITU Secretary General in 2014, Zhao served eight years as ITU Deputy Secretary-General. He also served two elected terms as Director of ITU’s Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB), which develops technical standards to ensure worldwide ICT interoperability. Before that, he was a Senior Counsellor with TSB for 12 years.
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