BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260628T172622EDT-3080AoB5Z4@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260628T212622Z DESCRIPTION:Celebrate World Food Day with the 91ºÚÁÏÍø Institute for Global F ood Security.\n\nThe fuel of tomorrow: How nutrition can drive countries\, economies and a brighter future\n\nwith special Keynote Speaker: Lauren L andis\, Director of the Nutrition Division at the World Food Programme\, R ome\n\nEveryone is welcome to attend.\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER:\n\nMs. Landis has spent her career working in the field of relief and development\, begi nning at OCHA (then UNDRO) in Geneva in 1985. She then moved to the U.S. O ffice of Foreign Disaster Assistance within the Agency for International D evelopment (USAID) from 1986 to 1993\, taking on assignments in Washington and in Africa as Disaster Operations Specialist and Emergency Operations Coordinator. \n\nIn 1993\, Ms. Landis turned her efforts to the NGO sector \, working at InterAction from 1993 until 1995. She later moved to Save th e Children\, serving as both Director of Humanitarian Response and Directo r of the Food Security Unit. In 2002\, Ms. Landis returned to the U.S. Gov ernment as Director of USAID’s Office of Food for Peace\, and in 2006 she transitioned to the U.S. Department of State to serve as the Senior Repres entative on Sudan.\n\nMs. Landis joined the United Nations World Food Prog ramme (WFP) as Chief of Staff in 2009\, and two years later she became Dir ector of the WFP Geneva Office. From 2013-2016\, Ms. Landis served as the WFP Country Representative and Director in Chad\, and in mid-2016 she retu rned to Rome\, Italy to take up her current role as WFP’s Director of Nutr ition.\n DTSTART:20181016T140000Z DTEND:20181016T160000Z LOCATION:MS2-022 (Faculty Lounge)\, Macdonald-Stewart Building\, CA\, QC\, St Anne de Bellevue\, H9X 3V9\, 21111 Lakeshore Road SUMMARY:World Food Day Celebration URL:/macdonald/channels/event/world-food-day-celebrati on-287454 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR