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. 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).