Yiping Zhou

Yiping Zhou (周一平; born 1955) is the United Nations Envoy on South-South Cooperation. Prior to this appointment of 30 May 2014 by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Yiping Zhou serve





d as the Director of the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC), where he led UN system-wide promotion and coordination of South-South cooperation in the global South.[1] He is also the Editor-in-Chief of "Cooperation South" –a signature development journal of the United Nations Development Programme.

Biographical Information

Throughout his career, Mr. Zhou has held a number of high-level positions with the United Nations. He served as Deputy Director and Senior Policy Adviser of the Special Unit for South-South Cooperation (1997-2004; Regional Programme Officer of UNDP's Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific (1992-1997); and Project Management Officer at the UN Office for Project Services (1985-1992). Prior to joining the United Nations, Mr. Zhou worked as a policy officer in the Department of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade of the Government of the People's Republic of China (1980-1984), and as diplomat in the Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations (1984-1985).

gollark: That sounds about as sensible as daylight saving time.
gollark: There are quite a lot of laws *in general*, enough that you can't practically know what they all are.
gollark: It's an "autonomous commune" in... Seattle or something.
gollark: It's apparently big enough that you would need something like 20 high-end compute GPUs, so... quite a lot of raspberry pis.
gollark: The trouble with this is that scaling it up like this requires ridiculous amounts of computing resources, and now it's so big that individuals probably can't even tractably run it.

References
  1. "Secretary-General Appoints Yiping Zhou of China as his Envoy on South-South Cooperation". Press release. United Nations.

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