Bonnie McClafferty is the director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition’s (GAIN) Agriculture for Nutrition Global Program as well as director of the organization’s U.S. Office. The Agriculture for Nutrition program at GAIN seeks to unlock obstacles along nutritious food supply chains to make diverse and nutritious diets accessible to the poor and undernourished. She has spent the better…
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Anne-Marie Steyn is the Shamba Shape Up Account Manager, based in Nairobi. Under her management, Shamba Shape Up has grown from a 3-month a year Kenya-only TV series to a 6-month a year regional TV series backed up by a call center and mobile information service. Ms. Steyn is a sustainability expert with a background in vegetable, flower, and dairy farming in Kenya and water management in UK. She…
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Danny Harvey is the Country Director for Concern Worldwide in Zambia and has been overseeing the Realigning Agriculture to Improve Nutrition (RAIN) project since 2013. She is a development professional with over 17 years of experience developing, implementing, managing, supporting and evaluating development programmes for International NGOs. With a background in Agriculture (MSc in Tropical…
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Theresa Agyeiwaa Ampadu-Boakye, a Ghanaian national based in Nairobi, is a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Expert and has for the past ten (10) years been working with agricultural projects in the areas of Monitoring, learning & Evaluation and organizational development. Currently, Ms. Ampadu-Boakye is the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist for the N2Africa project, where she…
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Hugh Bagnall-Oakeley is a senior hunger policy adviser with Save the Children (UK), and has over 30 years’ experience in Rural Development and Agribusiness, much of that was as a team leader managing, evaluating and designing projects for a range of different donors and other clients. His multi-disciplinary experience includes farmer institutional development, agricultural extension in both…
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Derek Yach has focused his career on advancing global health. He is currently the Executive Director of the Vitality Institute. Previously, Dr. Yach served as the Senior Vice President of Global Health and Agriculture Policy at PepsiCo, where he supported portfolio transformation and led engagement with major international groups as well as new African initiatives at the nexus of agriculture and…
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Mr Panu Saaristo (CRNA, MSc Disaster Relief Healthcare). Mr Saaristo is the Emergency Health Coordinator at the Geneva Secretariat of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. In that role he oversees the emergency health work of the largest humanitarian organisation in the world, spanning the spectrum from preparedness to emergency response. Mr Saaristo has held…
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Patricio V. Marquez is a World Bank Lead Health Specialist, who is currently serving as Public Health Focal Point (I) at the Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice of the World Bank. Since July 2014, he has been part of the WBG team that designed the Ebola Emergency Response Program for West Africa, prepared the US$390 million Ebola Emergency Response Project for Guinea, Liberia and…
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Hon. Tolbert G. Nyenswah is the Assistant Minister of Health & Social Welfare as well as the Deputy Chief Medical Officer at the Liberian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. In these capacities he plans and organizes activities related to the prevention and control of diseases of public health concern, including communicable and non-communicable diseases, as well as, mental health. He also…
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Dr. Edward Kelley currently serves as the World Health Organization’s(WHO) director on Service Delivery. He is also WHO’s lead on Health System Recovery for the organization’s Ebola response efforts. Prior to joining WHO, Dr Kelley directed the US National Healthcare Reports for the US Department of Health and Human Services in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). He also…
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