Steering Committee Members

Noora-Lisa Aberman, PhD
Senior Technical Specialist, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), USA

Rina Agustina, MD, PhD
Chair, Human Nutrition Research Center, Indonesian Medical Education and Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia; Faculty Member, Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia – Dr Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital, Indonesia

Dr Tahmeed Ahmed, PhD 
Executive Director, ICDDR, Bangladesh

Anabelle Bonvecchio Arenas, PhD 
Director of Nutrition Policies and Programs, Center for Research in Nutrition and Health, National Institute of Public Health, Mexico  

Shawn Baker Chief Program Officer, Helen Keller Intl, Senegal

Zulfiqar Bhutta, MBBS, FRCPCH, FAAP, PhD Co-Director, Centre for Global Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Canada; Founding Director, Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health & Institute for Global Health and Development, Aga Khan University, Pakistan

Namukolo M Covic, PhD
Director General’s Representative, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Ethiopia; Regional Director, East and Southern Africa, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), Ethiopia 

Rebecca Heidkamp, PhD
Associate Scientist, Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, USA 

Anna Lartey, PhD Professor of Nutrition, Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Ghana, Ghana 

Habtamu F. Lashtew, MD, MSc
Managing Director of Nutrition, Department of Global Health, Save the Children, USA 

Ngozi Nnam, PhD President, Federation of African Nutrition Societies (FANUS), Nigeria; Professor of Public Health and Community Nutrition, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Nigeria, Nigeria 

Stineke Oenema, MSc
Executive Secretary, UN-Nutrition, Italy 

Saskia Osendarp, PhD
Executive Director, Micronutrient Forum, The Netherlands

Marie T. Ruel, PhD
Senior Research Fellow, Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), USA 

Kerri Wazny, PhD, FRSPH
Manager, Evidence, Measurement and Evaluation (EME), CIFF, UK; International Health Associate, Bloomberg School of Public Health, John Hopkins University, USA