SPEAKERS
David Nabarro
Senior Adviser on FSS Dialogues
Dr David Nabarro is Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Food Security and Nutrition and Coordinator of the Scale up Nutrition Movement. He also serves as Senior UN System Coordinator for Avian and Pandemic Influenza. He was Coordinator of the UN system’s High Level Task Force on the Food Security Crisis for five years, beginning in 2009.
Previously he served at WHO headquarters in Geneva as the director of the WHO Department for Health Action in Crisis, Executive Director in the office of former WHO Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland and Director of WHO’s Roll Back Malaria Department.
Dr Nabarro holds a Masters’ degree in reproductive endocrinology and public health from Oxford and London Universities.
Lawrence Haddad
Executive Director, GAIN
Dr Lawrence Haddad became the Executive Director of GAIN in October 2016. Prior to this, Lawrence was the founding co-chair and lead author of the Global Nutrition Report from 2014 to 2016. From 2004 to 2014, Lawrence was the Director of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), the world’s leading development studies institute. Before joining IDS in 2004, he was Director of the Food Consumption and Nutrition Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) from 1994 to 2004. From 2009 to 2010, he was the UK representative on the Steering Committee of the High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) of the UN Committee on World Food Security (CSF). From 2010 to 2012, he was the President of the UK and Ireland’s Development Studies Association. He was awarded the World Food Prize in 2018.
An economist, Lawrence completed his PhD in Food Research at Stanford University in 1988.
Michael Dunford
Regional Director, Eastern Africa, WFP
Michael Dunford became Regional Director Eastern Africa based in Nairobi in June 2020. Michael is a lawyer who has worked for the United Nations for over 20 years and specifically with the UN World Food Programme (WFP) since 2001.
Prior to his appointment, Michael was the Country Representative in the United Republic of Tanzania.
Previously, Michael has been the WFP Deputy Country Director in Uganda, Bangladesh and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Michael holds a BA in Political Science from the Australian National University and an LLB from the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
Dame Sally Davies
UK Special Envoy on AMR
Dame Sally Davies was appointed as the UK Government’s Special Envoy on AMR in 2019. She is also the 40th Master of Trinity College, Cambridge University.
Dame Sally was the Chief Medical Officer for England and Senior Medical Advisor to the UK Government from 2011-2019. She is a leading figure in global health, having served as a member of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Executive Board 2014-2016, and as co-convener of the United Nations Inter-Agency Co-ordination Group (IACG) on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), reporting in 2019. In November 2020, Dame Sally was announced as a member of the new UN Global Leaders Group on AMR, serving alongside Heads of State, Ministers and prominent figures from around the world to advocate for action on AMR.
In the 2020 New Year Honours, Dame Sally became the second woman (and the first outside the Royal family) to be appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) for services to public health and research, having received her DBE in 2009.
Pascale Bonzom
Global Project Manager, Climate and Energy, UNDP
Pascale BONZOM is the Good Growth Partnership (GGP)´s Global Project Manager at UNDP, supporting countries to develop more sustainable agricultural commodities supply chains. She has been managing global, regional and national projects and providing technical advice to UNDP Country Offices on 4 continents in relation to sustainable value chain development for over 17 years. Previously, Pascale worked for 5 years as a business consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers, in London and New York. She has a PhD in Chemistry from the School of Pharmacy, University College London.