H.E. Mr. Francis Lorenzo
Ambassador and Honorary President of South South News, Dominican Republic
He served as the chair of the MDG Awards Committee. Ambassador Lorenzo is also an alternate Ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the United Nations, and worked with the UN Public-Private Alliance for Rural Development and the UN Economic and Social Council to negotiate the resolution that named the Dominican Republic as the second pilot country for the UN Alliance. In addition, Ambassador Lorenzo was the facilitator for the resolution towards global partnership at the UN. He was the former Vice President of the Commission for Social Development and is the current Vice President of the United Nations Association of the Dominican Republic (UNA-DR).