Editing Jean Ping (section)

{{Short description|Gabonese diplomat and politician (born 1942)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Jean Ping
| image               = Jean Ping 080202-F-1644L-081 0YWDF.jpg
| caption             = Ping in 2008
| office              = [[Chairperson of the African Union Commission|Chair of the African Union Commission]]
| term_start          = 28 April 2008
| term_end            = 15 October 2012
| predecessor         = [[Alpha Oumar Konaré]]
| successor           = [[Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma]]
| term_start2         = 17 September 2004
| term_end2           = 18 September 2005
| successor2          = [[Jan Eliasson]]
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|1942|11|24|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Omboué]], [[French Equatorial Africa]] {{small|(now [[Gabon]])}}
| residence           = [[Libreville]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Jean Ping a reçu à sa résidence des diplomates européens |url=http://www.gabonactu.com/jean-ping-a-recu-a-residence-diplomates-europeens/ |website=GABONACTU.COM |access-date=8 January 2019 |language=fr-FR |date=9 May 2018}}</ref>
| death_date          = 
| death_place         = 
| office2             = [[President of the United Nations General Assembly]]
| predecessor2        = [[Julian Hunte]]
| alma_mater          = [[University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne]]
| party               = [[Union of Forces for Change (Gabon)|Union of Forces for Change]]
}}

'''Jean Ping''' ({{IPA|fr|ʒɑ̃ piŋ}}; born 24 November 1942)<ref name=UN>[https://www.un.org/ga/president/59/office/president.html UN profile page].</ref><ref name=JA>[http://www.jeuneafrique.com/jeune_afrique/article_jeune_afrique.asp?art_cle=LIN05013jeanpeinohp0 "Jean Ping Ministre des Affaires étrangères, de la Coopération et de la Francophonie"], ''Jeune Afrique'', 5 January 2003 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref><ref name=Bio>[http://www.gabonews.ga/actualite/actualites_2007.php?Article=1778 "Gabon: Biographie du nouveau président de la Commission de l’Union Africaine, Jean Ping"]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Gabonews, 2 February 2008 {{in lang|fr}}.</ref> is a Gabonese diplomat and politician who served as [[Chairperson of the African Union Commission|Chair of the African Union Commission]] from 2008 to 2012. Born to a [[Chinese people in Africa|Chinese]] father and Gabonese mother, he is the first individual of [[Overseas Chinese|Chinese descent]] to lead the executive branch of the African Union.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-08-30|title=Who is Jean Ping, the man who could be Gabon's next president?|url=https://www.newsweek.com/who-jean-ping-gabons-presidential-challenger-494551|access-date=2021-03-07|website=Newsweek|language=en}}</ref>

He served as the Minister of State and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Francophonie of the Gabonese Republic from 1999 to 2008, and was [[President of the United Nations General Assembly]] from 2004 to 2005. He stood for the [[2016 Gabonese presidential election]] against president [[Ali Bongo Ondimba|Ali Bongo]].