The UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) this week announced the next Steering Committee of its High Level Panel of Experts on food security and nutrition.
Friedman's Alexander McFarlane Professor of Nutrition, Patrick Webb, was among 15 world-renowned experts appointed to the panel. Friedman Professor Eileen Kennedy, a former Friedman School dean, was similarly appointed to this body for the 2015-2019 period.
The appointed members of the Steering Committee of the HLPE-FSN will serve from the closure of CFS 51 Plenary session (27 October 2023) until the closure of the CFS 53 Plenary session (October 2025).
- Olanike Adeyemo
- Marie-Josèphe Amiot-Carlin
- Sayed Azam-Ali
- Mahmud Duwayri
- Ruben Echeverría
- Cecilia Elizondo
- Hilal Elver
- Evan Fraser
- Elisabetta Recine
- Hettie Schonfeldt
- Serraj RachidAkiko
- Suwa-Eisenmann
- Stefan Tangermann
- Patrick Webb
The HLPE-FSN Steering Committee members are reputable, internationally recognized experts on food security and nutrition-related fields and reflect an assortment of scientific disciplines, balance of regional expertise as well as consideration of gender representation.
They work with an extensive network of over 2,000 experts and they participate in their individual capacities and not as representatives of their respective governments institutions or organizations.