Josette Sheeran
Josette Sheeran
Josette Sheeranhas been President and CEO of the Asia Society since May 2013. Previously Sheeran was Vice Chairman of the World Economic Forum. Sheeran assumed that position on the conclusion of her term at the World Food Programme. She was the eleventh Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme, appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General Jacques Diouf in November 2006. Prior to this post, she served as the United States Under...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
CountryUnited States of America
Josette Sheeran quotes about
Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.
If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.
Women are the face of hunger. Hunger has a female face. It affects women disproportionately, and therefore it affects children as well, and it gets passed on inter-generationally, too.
Seize the moment – don’t wait for anyone to give you permission.
There’s nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food — the most fundamental expectation of every human being.
With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority. WHO regards hunger and malnutrition as the gravest threat to public health, and climate change threatens to further destabilise already fragile food-production systems.