Committee on World Food Security
Making a difference in food security and nutrition
Agenda item II: High-Level Opening Ceremony
Mr. António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations | Biography
Dr. Qu Dongyu, Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN | Biography
Mr. Alvaro Lario, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development | Biography
Ms. Cindy McCain, Executive Director, World Food Programme | Biography
H.E. Dennis Francis, President, UN General Assembly | Biography
H.E. Paula Narváez, President, UN Economic and Social Council | Biography
Mr. Bernard Lehmann, Chairperson, High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN) | Biography
H.E. Gabriel Ferrero, Chairperson, Committee on World Food Security | Biography
Agenda item III: Strengthening Coordinated Policy Responses to the Global Food Crisis - The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023
H.E. Gabriel Ferrero, Chairperson, Committee on World Food Security | Biography
Dr. Máximo Torero Cullen, Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | Biography
Mr. Michael Fakhri, Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Human Rights Council | Biography
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Agenda item IV: Global 'Interlinkages' Dialogue
Dr. David Nabarro, Co-Director and Chair, Global Health at the Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College, London | Biography
H.E. Paula Narváez, President, UN Economic and Social Council | Biography
Ms. Fatema Aref Almulla, Director, Partnerships & Special Projects Department, UAE | Biography
Dr. David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity | Biography
H.E. Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, Special Envoy for Food Systems, African Union | Biography
Dr. Stefanos Fotiou, Director, UN Food Systems Coordination Hub | Biography
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Agenda item V: Empowering Women and Girls and Promoting Gender Equality: Endorsement and Uptake of the CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Gender Equality and Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment (GEWE) in the Context of Food Security and Nutrition
Agenda item VI: Leveraging the Use of Data for Driving Food Security and Nutrition Policy: Endorsement and Uptake of the Policy Recommendations on Strengthening FSN Data Collection and Analysis Tools for Food Security and Nutrition
Agenda item VII: Addressing Multiple Dimensions of Inequalities: Reducing Inequalities for Food Security and Nutrition
Agenda item VIII: CFS Strategic Direction toward 2030: The Multi-Year Programme of Work (MYPoW) 2024-2027
H.E. Gabriel Ferrero, Chairperson, Committee on World Food Security | Biography
Agenda item IX: Progress Report on Follow-Up to the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2)
Agenda item X: Monitoring CFS Policy Recommendations on Price Volatility and Food Security and on Social Protection for Food Security and Nutrition
Dr. Máximo Torero Cullen, Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | Biography
Mr. Seth Meyer, Chair, Agricultural Market Information System | Biography
Ms. Valerie Guarnieri, Assistant Executive Director for Programme and Policy Development, World Food Programme | Biography
Mr. Mohamed Béavogui, Former UN Assistant Secretary-General and Director-General of African Risk Capacity | Biography
H.E. Doreen Mwamba, Minister of Community Development and Social Services, Republic of Zambia | Biography
Mr. Renato Domith Godinho, Special Advisor for International Affairs, Ministry for Social Development and Assistance, Family and Fight Against Hunger, Brazil | Biography
H.E. Domingo F. Panganiban, Senior Under-Secretary, Department of Agriculture, Philippines | Biography
Mr. Michael Keller, Chair, Private Sector Mechanism Representative, International Agri-Food Network | Biography
Ms. Patti Naylor, Representative, Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism for Relations with the UN Committee on World Food Security | Biography
Ms. Stefania Lenoci, Head of the Private Sector Advisory and Implementation Unit, International Fund for Agricultural Development | Biography
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Agenda item XI: Other matters
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CFS Secretariat's Special Event on the right to food
H.E. Gabriel Ferrero, Chairperson, Committee on World Food Security | Biography
Ms. Marcela Villareal, Director, Partnerships and UN Collaboration, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | Biography
Mr. Michael Fakhri, Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Human Rights Council | Biography
Ms. Nada Al-Nashif, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights | Biography
Mr. Renato Maluf, Former President, Brazilian National Council on Food and Nutrition Security | Biography
Mr. Michael Windfuhr, Expert Member, UN-Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights | Biography
Ms. Nadra Saleh Abdi Liibaan, Member of Parliament, Somalia | Biography
H.E. Thierry Apothéloz, State Councillor, Department of Social Cohesion, Switzerland | Biography
H.E. Shri Sanjeev Chopra, Secretary Ministry of Food and Public Distribution, Government of India | Biography
Mr. Chirophe Golay, Legal Adviser to the first UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Biography
Dr. Hlamalani Ngwenya, CEO, Facilitation of Systemic Change Consulting | Biography