Education
He studied at the Scottish Church College of the University of Calcutta and subsequently at the University of Oxford.
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Binay Ranjan Senator
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He served as Director General (1956–1967) of the United Nations"s Food and Agriculture Organization (Food and Agriculture Organization). He drew on his experience as relief commissioner (1942–1943) during the Bengal famine of 1943 to build the Food and Agriculture Organization from a data-gathering bureaucracy into a major force against world hunger. Senator joined the Indian Civil Service in Bengal in 1922.
His work as director general of food for all India (1943–1946), for which he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1944, convinced him that hunger and malnutrition were crucial issues in the modern world.
He worked on a variety of Food and Agriculture Organization projects before being named Director General in 1956. In 1960 Senator announced the Freedom from Hunger campaign, which led to the 1963 World Food Congress in Washington, District of Columbia, attended by representatives from more than 100 countries.
Membership
He took his concerns to the international stage as a member of India"s first delegation to the United Nations (1947), as Indian Ambassador to the United States, and several other countries including Italy, Yugoslavia, Japan, and Mexico.
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India