Ciyong Zou

Deputy to the Director General, and Managing Director, Directorate of Sustainable Technical Coop-eration (TCS), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

Ciyong Zou is a Deputy to the Director General and Managing Director of the Directorate of Technical Cooperation and Sustainable Industrial Development (TCS). Ciyong Zou is also the Director General’s Special Representative for the G77 and China. Before joining UNIDO, he performed multiple roles, including Deputy Director General of International Department at the Chinese Ministry of Finance, Alternate to the Chinese Executive Director at the World Bank, and Focal Point to the Global Environmental Facility for China.

Articles by Ciyong Zou

1. Boosting technology transfer to support the SDGs in LDCs

   Ciyong Zou, Marco Kamiya, Alla Metelitsa

   Economic development — Global

   The world’s poorest countries have most to gain from tech like AI that can rapidly accelerate SDG action, but are often the least able to utilize such innovations. We need a global, cooperative effort to ensure that the technical tools and skills that humankind has developed are available to all

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   11 July 2023

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