{"id":63686,"date":"2018-11-01T19:26:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T11:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/itu-member-states-re-elects-houlin-zhao-as-secretary-general-2\/"},"modified":"2018-11-01T19:26:12","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T11:26:12","slug":"itu-member-states-re-elects-houlin-zhao-as-secretary-general-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/itu-member-states-re-elects-houlin-zhao-as-secretary-general-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ITU Member States Re-Elects Houlin Zhao as Secretary-General"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Member States of the International Telecommunication Union<\/strong> (ITU) have re-elected China\u2019s Houlin Zhao as ITU Secretary-General during the Union\u2019s 20th Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-18) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The election took place during the Plenary session of the PP-18 conference. 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 Jan. 1 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe continue to connect the unconnected,\u201d said Zhao. \u201cWe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB), which develops technical standards to ensure worldwide ICT interoperability. Before that, he was a Senior Counsellor with <strong>TSB<\/strong> for 12 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Member States of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have re-elected China\u2019s Houlin Zhao as ITU Secretary-General during the Union\u2019s 20th Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-18) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The election took place during the Plenary session of the PP-18 conference. Zhao, an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) engineer who has served in a variety of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}