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World Food Program USA Welcomes Appointment
of Ambassador Ertharin Cousin as New Executive
Director of U.N.
World Food Program.
Statement from Rick Leach, president and CEO, WFP USA
Washington, DC — "On behalf of World Food Program USA and
our board of directors, I congratulate
Ambassador Ertharin Cousin on her appointment as Executive
Director of the U.N.
World Food Program."
Ambassador Cousin brings the vision, commitment and energy
required to unite the international community around
solutions to global hunger. With her decades of experience
in
national and international corporate, non-profit and
government leadership, I am certain that she will
effectively engage both the public and private sectors to
help lift those in need from hunger
and extreme poverty. In her service as U.S. Ambassador and
Permanent Representative to the United Nations Agencies for
Food and Agriculture in Rome, Ambassador Cousin has proven
her
deep knowledge of food security policy and her commitment to
fighting world hunger.
Ambassador Cousin will be an effective and innovative leader
of WFP and we are looking forward to working with her in the
fight against hunger.
World Food Program USA (WFP USA) is a nonprofit organization
that builds support in the United States to end global
hunger. WFP USA engages individuals and organizations,
shapes public policy and generates resources for the United
Nations World Food Program and other hunger relief |