The Leadership Council includes champions and influential thinkers. It provides strategic guidance to help shape and unify the commitments of national leaders for overcoming country- and global-level challenges to eliminating hunger and undernutrition in the next decade.
Leadership Council members (as of March 2018)
- Fazle Hasan Abed, Founder and Chairperson, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC)
- Catherine Bertini, Distinguished Fellow, Global Food and Agriculture, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and Rockefeller Foundation Fellow
- Saulos Chilima, Vice President, Republic of Malawi
- Matia Chowdhury, Minister of Agriculture, People’s Republic of Bangladesh
- Shenggen Fan, Director General, IFPRI (ex officio)
- Justin Yifu Lin, Director, Center for New Structural Economics, Dean, Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development, and Professor and Honorary Dean, National School of Development at Peking University
- Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, Chief Executive Officer, New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD)
- Demeke Mekonnen, Deputy Prime Minister, Ethiopia
- Neven Mimica, Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, European Commission (EC)
- Anastase Murekezi, former Prime Minister, Republic of Rwanda
- Kanayo Nwanze, Fifth President (Rtd) of International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Special Goodwill Ambassador on Zero Hunger, Africa Region, and CGIAR System Management Board’s First Global Ambassador
- Jaidev Shroff, Chief Executive Officer, UPL Limited
- Kathy Spahn, President, Helen Keller International
- M.S. Swaminathan, Founder, Chairman and Chief Mentor, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation
- Gerda Verburg, Coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement
Leadership Council meeting minutes: October 6, 2016, November 19, 2015
