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Lawrence Haddad
BornLawrence James Haddad
(1959-06-17) 17 June 1959 (age 65)
Johannesburg, South Africa
NationalityBritish
Academic career
FieldDevelopment economics
InstitutionGlobal Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) International Food Policy Research Institute
University of Sussex
Alma mater
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Lawrence James Haddad CMG (born 17 June 1959), is a British economist whose main research focuses on how to make food systems work better to advance the nutrition status of people globally.

He is the Executive Director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition.

Early life

Haddad was born in Johannesburg to Lebanese parents and moved to England in 1961. After his parents split, he was brought up in North East London by his mother and grandmother. It was around this time that Lawrence became a Save the Children volunteer. He received good assistance at school.

In 1980, Haddad graduated from the University of Reading with a degree in Food Science and Economics. At the encouragement of his professors, he went on to complete a Master's in Resource Economics at the University of Massachusetts in 1982. A development economist, Lawrence won subsequently a three-year fellowship to pursue his PhD at Stanford University's Food Research Institute, which he completed in 1988.

Career

From 2009-2010, Haddad was the UK’s representative on the Steering Committee of the High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) of the UN’s Committee on World Food Security (CSF). He was the President of the UK and Ireland’s Development Studies Association from 2010 to 2012.

From 2004-2014, Haddad served as Director of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), the world’s leading development studies institute. Before joining IDS in 2004, he was Director of the Food Consumption and Nutrition Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) from 1994 to 2004. Prior to that he was a Lecturer in quantitative development economics at the University of Warwick.

Prior to becoming the Executive Director of GAIN, Lawrence was the founding co-chair and lead author of the Global Nutrition Report (GNR) from 2014 to 2016.

Lawrence became the Executive Director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) in October 2016. GAIN is an international organisation launched at the United Nations in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition. GAIN seeks to improve the consumption of safe and nutritious food from sustainable food systems for all people, especially the most vulnerable to malnutrition.

On Monday, 25 June 2018, the World Food Prize Foundation awarded the 2018 World Food Prize to Lawrence Haddad, and David Nabarro, former special adviser to the UN Secretary General. Announcing the award Ambassador Quinn, World Food Prize President cited the recipients for their "extraordinary intellectual and policy leadership in bringing maternal and child nutrition to the forefront of the global food security agenda and thereby significantly reducing childhood stunting"

Most recently he was appointed by the UN Deputy Secretary General to lead nutrition work at the 2021 UN Food system Summit.

Haddad was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to international nutrition, food and agriculture.

Media

Lawrence is regularly featured in news media, social media and blogs such as Al Jazeera, Forbes and The Guardian.

Selected bibliography

Journal articles

See also

References

  1. "Haddad, Lawrence James". Library of Congress. Retrieved 30 September 2014. data sheet (b. 06-17-59)
  2. "Get to know our Executive Director". Home. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  3. "2018: Haddad and Nabarro". World Food Prize Foundation. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
  4. "Lawrence Haddad". Home. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  5. Haddad, Lawrence. "Lawrence Haddad, Institute of Development Studies, UK (Curriculum Vitae Summary)" (PDF). IDS (Institute of Development Studies). Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  6. "Vision and mission". Home. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  7. HeySummit. "Health Talks for the Food Systems Summit". Health Talks for the Food Systems Summit. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  8. "No. 63918". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2022. p. N4.
  9. What's driving up food prices worldwide? | Inside Story, retrieved 22 February 2022
  10. Ewing-Chow, Daphne. "World Food Prize Laureate Wants To Create A Nutrition-Climate Symphony". Forbes. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  11. "Lawrence Haddad". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
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