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Ertharin Cousin

CEO & Co-Founder, Food Systems for the Future

Ertharin Cousin is a global agriculture, food security, and nutrition solutions thought leader and sustainability advocate. Cousin currently serves as the CEO and Co-Founder of Food Systems for the Future, a nutrition impact investment fund, a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow of the Robert Bosch Academy, a Distinguished Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs; and as a Visiting Scholar at the Stanford University Center on Food Security and Environment. From 2012 to 2017, Cousin led the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). In 2009, Cousin was nominated and confirmed as the US Ambassador to the UN Agencies for Food and Agriculture in Rome where she served from 2009 to 2012. Prior to her global hunger work, Cousin helped lead the US domestic fight to end hunger including service as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of America’s Second Harvest – now Feeding America.