Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Jacques Diouf (born 1 August 1938) is a Senegalese diplomat with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. He has been serving as Director-General of FAO since January 1994. His term will end in January 2012; his successor, José Graziano da Silva, was elected in June 2011.Diouf attended primary and secondary school in his native Saint-Louis, Senegal. He then traveled to France, where he earned a bachelor of science in Agriculture from the Ecole nationale d'agriculture, Grignon-Paris Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon, a Master of Science in Tropical Agronomy from the Ecole nationale d'application d'agronomie tropicale, Nogent-Paris (France), Doctor of Philosophy in Social Sciences of the Rural Sector from the (Agricultural Economics) from the Faculté de droit et de sciences économiques, Panthéon - Sorbonne, Paris.