June 25, 2018, Washington, D.C. – The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) congratulates Lawrence Haddad and David Nabarro on being named joint recipients of the World Food Prize today, for their intellectual and policy leadership in bringing maternal and child nutrition to the forefront of the global food security agenda.
“We at IFPRI are proud to have worked with these two exceptional leaders for many years to highlight the importance of child and maternal nutrition in the fight to end hunger,” said Shenggen Fan, director general of IFPRI. “Their tireless efforts in research and advocacy have been essential in achieving the tremendous progress the world has made in reducing malnutrition, and this recognition is much deserved.”
Lawrence Haddad is the current Executive Director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and was the 2016 laureate of the Martin J. Forman Lecture, an annual lecture on international nutrition hosted by IFPRI. Haddad has worked with IFPRI for more than 18 years, including serving as director of IFPRI’s Food Consumption and Nutrition Division from 1994 to 2004. While a Senior Research Fellow at IFPRI from 2014-2016 he was founding co-chair of the Global Nutrition Report.
David Nabarro served as special advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and in 2017 was nominated by the United Kingdom for the post of Director-General of the World Health Organization. Nabarro has partnered with IFPRI many times, most notably as the 2010 Martin J. Forman Lecture Laureate, and as a keynote speaker at IFPRI’s 2020 Vision Conference in Delhi in 2011.
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seeks sustainable solutions for ending hunger and poverty. IFPRI was established in 1975 to identify and analyze alternative national and international strategies and policies for meeting the food needs of the developing world, with particular emphasis on low-income countries and on the poorer groups in those countries. www.ifpri.org.