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Ertharin Cousin

Ertharin Cousin

Executive Director, World Food Programme (2009-2017)

Ertharin Cousin possesses more than thirty years of national and international non-profit, government.

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Ertharin Cousin possesses more than thirty years of national and international non-profit, government, and corporate leadership experience focusing on food, hunger, humanitarian operations, political organizing, community development and resilience strategies.

From 2009 until 2017 Cousin led the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) as the twelfth Executive Director (ED). As WFP ED Cousin guided the world’s largest humanitarian organization with 14,000 staff serving 80 million beneficiaries in 75 countries meeting urgent food needs; while, championing and serving as a global advocate for longer-term solutions to food insecurity and hunger.

Cousin has been listed numerous times on the Forbes “100 Most Powerful Women” list, as the Fortune “Most Powerful Woman in Food and Drink”, on Time’s “100 Most Influential People” list, and as one of the “500 Most Powerful People on the Planet” by Foreign Policy magazine.

Cousin has an international reputation as a leader, with an emphasis on visionary thinking, practical problem solving, and the capacity to articulate clearly an important perspective on the global political and social situation.

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No Security without Food Security

Undernutrition and Obesity Two Sides of the Same Malnutrition Coin

Women’s Leadership and Power: When Just Leaning In Isn’t Good Enough

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Ertharin Cousin Feeds The World's Hungriest
Power With Purpose: Ertharin Cousin

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