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Appendix B: Speaker Biographies
Appendix B: Speaker Biographies
Pages 165-182
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Mr. Arnold is a member of the Advisory Board for the International Food Policy Research Institute's (IFPRI's)
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He has been a senior scientist at the Italian Food and Nutrition Research Institute in Italy, dealing with nutrition surveillance; with the design, management and evaluation of public health nutrition programs in Africa and Central Asia; and the implementation of research on the biological effects of micronutrients and bioactive compounds in food. He has been a member of the European Food Safety Authority Panel on Nutrition, the President of the Federa tion of the European Nutrition Societies, and has taught public health nutrition at the University of Rome.
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Dr. Fedoroff is on leave from the Pennsylvania State University, where she is the Willaman Professor of Life Sciences and the Evan Pugh Pro fessor in the Biology Department and the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.
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Secretary of Agriculture from March 1995 until January 2001. Under his leadership, the department administered farm and conservation pro grams; modernized food-safety regulations; forged international trade agreements to expand U.S.
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Glickman serves as the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Cochair of the Global Agriculture Development Project (with Catherine Bertini)
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She currently serves as the Chief of Women, Children, and Gender Policy of the UN World Food Programme based in Rome. Some of her achievements include the transformation of the Ministry of Health Nutrition Unit of The Gambia to a National Nutrition Agency under the Office of the Vice President, with a mandate to coordinate nutrition across the various sectors.
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Ruth Levine, Ph.D., is Vice President for Programs and Operations and Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development (CGD) , where she leads the center's work on global health policy.
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. He was active at the National Research Council during the 1980s, serving on the Food and Nutrition Board, its Committee on International Nutrition Programs, and the Subcommittee on Vitamin A Deficiency Prevention and Control.
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community. She has developed global tools and best practice guidance for the UN and the Global Nutrition Cluster related to international nutrition and food security assessment in emergencies as well as integrating food/nutrition and HIV programs in crisis and refugee settings.
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, the FAO 50th Anniversary, the World Fertilizer Conference, the World Food Production Conference, and the Asia Conference on Agricultural Information Technology. David Nabarro, M.D., serves as an Assistant Secretary General in the United Nations.
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She is on the board of the Kenya Gatsby Charitable Trust, Food Security and Sustainable Development Division of the Economic Commission for Africa, Institute for Policy Analysis and Research, International Fertilizer Development Center, Biotechnology Advi sory Council of Monsanto-USA, and the Private Sector Corporate Governance Trust. She is also on the advisory committee of the Biofortification Project of the International Food Policy Research Institute.
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He had previously been Director of the Cornell Food and Nutrition Policy Program, Professor of Food Economics at Cornell University, member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, Research Fellow and Director of the Food Consumption and Nutrition Policy Program at IFPRI, Agricultural Economist at the Interna tional Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) , Director of the Agro-Economic Division at the International Fertilizer Development Center, and an Associate Professor of the Danish Veterinary and Agricultural University in Copenhagen.
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Dr. Rivera has published more than 130 scientific articles, book chapters, and books, and he is currently a member of the Latin American Nutrition Society, the American Society for Nutritional Sciences, and the Society for International Nutrition Research.
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Dr. Shah joined the foundation in 2001 and served as Director of Strategic Opportunities and Deputy Director of Policy and Finance for Global Health.
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Prior to this, he worked for Helen Keller International Bangladesh on the Nutritional Surveillance Project from 1997 to 2000. He has a master's degree in international health from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
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, is the George G Graham Professor of Infant and Child Nutrition and the Director of the Center and Program for Human Nutrition in the Department of International Health of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Derek Yach, M.B., Ch.B., M.P.H., is the Senior Vice President of Global Health Policy at PepsiCo where he leads the Global Human Sustainability Task Force and engagement with major international policy, research, and scientific groups. Previously, he has headed global health at the Rockefeller Foundation, been Pro fessor of Public Health and head of the Division of Global Health at Yale University, and is a former Executive Director of the World Health Organization (WHO)
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He currently holds the positions of Adjunct Professor and Professorial Lecturer at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Center for Global Health, and Professorial Lecturer at the American University's School of International Service. In addi tion to instructing courses, he guest lectures on a variety of topics ranging from emerging infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, nutrition, integrated management of childhood illnesses, and monitoring and evaluation of international public health programs.
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