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 May 2017)
- Fazle Hasan Abed, Founder and Chairperson, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC)
- Catherine Bertini, Distinguished Fellow, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
- Saulos Chilima, Vice President, Republic of Malawi
- Matia Chowdhury, Minister of Agriculture, People’s Republic of Bangladesh
- Shenggen Fan, Director General, IFPRI (ex officio)
- Wolfgang Jamann, Secretary General and CEO, CARE International
- 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, Prime Minister, Republic of Rwanda
- Kanayo Nwanze, former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
- Lilianne Ploumen, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, the Netherlands
- 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
