The appointment of Cindy McCain, widow of Arizona senator and 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain, was jointly announced by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General Qu Dongyu.
, was jointly announced by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General Qu Dongyu.
McCain will succeed David Beasley, a former South Carolina governor who has led WFP over the last six years including through the COVID-19 pandemic and the global food crisis sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.in part for being "a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict.
The board’s president, Poland’s Ambassador Andrej Pollok, welcomed her selection., saying she takes over "at a moment when the world confronts the most serious food security crisis in modern history."
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