ABSTRACT
The first Director General of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) was Sir John Boyd Orr, knighted in 1935 for his services to UK agriculture. By profession a nutritionist, he had been head of the Rowett Research Institute near Aberdeen in Scotland. Boyd Orr left FAO after his term in office, excited that he would then be going into business. The next DG, Norris Dodd, was quite a different man. The third director general, P. V. Cardon, came from Utah. While his career was primarily in research, his degrees were in agricultural economics. B. R. Sen, the fourth director general, was educated at Calcutta University and Oxford. He had risen through the Indian Civil Service from District Magistrate to Director General of Food and to Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture. A. H. Boerma was Director General of FAO from 1967 through to 1975. He graduated from the Agricultural University, Wageningen where he specialized in horticulture and agricultural economics.
