Governance

Committed to world class governance and transparency

The Power of Nutrition is an independent charitable foundation registered in the United Kingdom. Our work is overseen by an independent Board of Trustees and supported by a panel of experienced technical experts.

Board of trustees

Led by Mark Cutifani as Chair and supported by David Bull as Deputy Chair, the trustees are responsible for the oversight and governance of The Power of Nutrition. They review and update strategy and areas of activity, including consideration of prospective donors, investments, governance and risk management. The Board recently ratified a new Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults Policy.

  • Mark Cutifani

    Chair

    Dr Mark Cutifani, FREng, was most recently CEO at Anglo American for nine years and is credited for reviving the recent fortunes of the mining group. He has been a Trustee of The Power of Nutrition Board since 2018 and is now its Chair.

    Having begun his career in 1976 as a trainee engineer in the Australian coal mines, Mark has since worked across six continents, 25 countries and with more than 20 commodities. He has built a reputation based on his broad industry, technical and commercial knowledge, and is recognised as an industry innovator with a track record of building high performance teams and delivering improvements across all facets of the business.

    In his previous role as CEO of AngloGold Ashanti, Mark led the revitalisation and restructuring of its global mining business, delivering significant business improvements, ranging from safety, operations, capital discipline, project delivery and broader financial restructuring.

    Mark has also held the positions of COO for Inco and Vale’s global nickel business, as well senior executive positions with the Normandy Group, Sons of Gwalia, Western Mining Corporation, Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines and CRA (Rio Tinto). With a leadership style that puts its focus on people development, accountability and the delivery of sustainable value,

    Mark has placed an emphasis on developing strong shareholder, employee and stakeholder relationships.

  • David Bull CBE

    Deputy Chair

    David Bull has been a member of the Board since 2016 and now acts as Deputy Chair.

    David is a former Executive Director of UNICEF UK. He stepped down after nearly 17 years with the organisation. Under his leadership, UNICEF UK’s voluntary income grew from £13 million in 1998 to over £100 million in 2016. Over the course of his career, David has worked to improve the lives and livelihoods of vulnerable people and communities through sustainable development, including as a Director at Amnesty International UK.

    David has been and continues to be a champion of nutrition and a passionate advocate for the rights of children.

  • Jonathan Brinsden

    Jonathan trained at Bircham Dyson Bell, qualifying in 2002 and promoted to partner in 2009.

    Jonathan advises on a wide variety of commercial and constitutional issues affecting charities and is the first point of contact for many charity chief executives. He has assisted a number of charities with Charity Commission schemes and other regulatory issues relating to their activities. He has considerable expertise in the specialised area of NHS charity regulation and has worked with charities of all shapes and sizes in improving their governance systems and developing their legal frameworks.

    Jonathan has also built up a significant practice advising on fundraising, direct mail solicitations and sponsorship opportunities. Jonathan has developed particular expertise in advising charities operating internationally, in particular in helping overseas charities develop their franchise within the UK, often by a subsidiary or by a dual qualified charity.

    Jonathan is a trustee of a number of charities and frequent contributor to charities media debates.

Dr Mark Cutifani, FREng, was most recently CEO at Anglo American for nine years and is credited for reviving the recent fortunes of the mining group. He has been a Trustee of The Power of Nutrition Board since 2018 and is now its Chair.

Having begun his career in 1976 as a trainee engineer in the Australian coal mines, Mark has since worked across six continents, 25 countries and with more than 20 commodities. He has built a reputation based on his broad industry, technical and commercial knowledge, and is recognised as an industry innovator with a track record of building high performance teams and delivering improvements across all facets of the business.

In his previous role as CEO of AngloGold Ashanti, Mark led the revitalisation and restructuring of its global mining business, delivering significant business improvements, ranging from safety, operations, capital discipline, project delivery and broader financial restructuring.

Mark has also held the positions of COO for Inco and Vale’s global nickel business, as well senior executive positions with the Normandy Group, Sons of Gwalia, Western Mining Corporation, Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines and CRA (Rio Tinto). With a leadership style that puts its focus on people development, accountability and the delivery of sustainable value,

Mark has placed an emphasis on developing strong shareholder, employee and stakeholder relationships.

David Bull has been a member of the Board since 2016 and now acts as Deputy Chair.

David is a former Executive Director of UNICEF UK. He stepped down after nearly 17 years with the organisation. Under his leadership, UNICEF UK’s voluntary income grew from £13 million in 1998 to over £100 million in 2016. Over the course of his career, David has worked to improve the lives and livelihoods of vulnerable people and communities through sustainable development, including as a Director at Amnesty International UK.

David has been and continues to be a champion of nutrition and a passionate advocate for the rights of children.

Jonathan trained at Bircham Dyson Bell, qualifying in 2002 and promoted to partner in 2009.

Jonathan advises on a wide variety of commercial and constitutional issues affecting charities and is the first point of contact for many charity chief executives. He has assisted a number of charities with Charity Commission schemes and other regulatory issues relating to their activities. He has considerable expertise in the specialised area of NHS charity regulation and has worked with charities of all shapes and sizes in improving their governance systems and developing their legal frameworks.

Jonathan has also built up a significant practice advising on fundraising, direct mail solicitations and sponsorship opportunities. Jonathan has developed particular expertise in advising charities operating internationally, in particular in helping overseas charities develop their franchise within the UK, often by a subsidiary or by a dual qualified charity.

Jonathan is a trustee of a number of charities and frequent contributor to charities media debates.

  • Al Cook

    Al Cook is currently Executive Vice President at Equinor, leading on Global Strategy and Business Development. Al joined Equinor in 2016 and has over 20 years’ experience in the energy sector. Equinor is an international energy company. It is the largest operator in Norway and one of the world’s largest offshore operators as well as being a growing force in the renewable energy market.

    Prior to Equinor, Al worked at BP, where he was Chief of Staff to the CEO, having joined in 1996 taking on a series of project development and commercial roles in the North Sea and Gulf of Mexico. From 2005, he led the IGB2 Project in Vietnam and acted as President for BP in Vietnam. Al worked from 2009 to 2014 as BP’s Vice President leading developments in Azerbaijan.

  • Caroline Kuhnert

    Dr. Caroline Kuhnert is a Member of the Executive Committee of the Global Wealth Management Business of UBS AG, the world’s largest wealth manager. She is responsible for the business in Central and Eastern Europe, Greece and Israel. While at UBS she served on various boards of UBS subsidiaries in Europe and Emerging markets. She also serves on the Board for Sustainable Investments at UBS, the UBS Global Visionaries Board and on the Board of the African Youth Initiative.

    Caroline’s career in banking spans nearly 30 years with assignments in Vienna, Moscow, London and Zürich. She joined UBS in 1997 in the Investment Bank’s Fixed Income Division where she raised finance for Governments, large corporates and financial institutions.

    In the last ten years Caroline has been at the forefront of the transformation of traditional Swiss private banking into providing global comprehensive investment advice and services to the most sophisticated clients and family offices on the globe.

    Caroline holds a PhD on Soviet Energy Policy and a Master’s degree in International Comparative Politics. She studied in Paris, Vienna and Moscow and is fluent in German, English, Russian and French. She is married and lives in Zurich.

  • Kul Chandra Gautam

    Kul Chandra Gautam is a distinguished diplomat, development professional and a former senior official of the United Nations. Currently, he serves on the boards of several international and national organizations, charitable foundations and public-private partnerships. Previously, he served in senior managerial and leadership positions with the United Nations in several countries, in a career spanning over three decades. As a former deputy executive director of UNICEF and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, he holds extensive experience in international diplomacy, development cooperation, and humanitarian assistance.

    A citizen of Nepal, Kul is active in Nepal’s civil society in promoting human rights, socioeconomic development, democracy, and good governance. He writes on, speaks about, and informally advises Nepal’s political and civil society leadership as well as the international community on Nepal’s peace process, consolidation of democracy, human rights, and socioeconomic development.

    Internationally, he continues to be active in advocacy of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly in the areas of child rights, global health, nutrition, basic education, and human development.

Al Cook is currently Executive Vice President at Equinor, leading on Global Strategy and Business Development. Al joined Equinor in 2016 and has over 20 years’ experience in the energy sector. Equinor is an international energy company. It is the largest operator in Norway and one of the world’s largest offshore operators as well as being a growing force in the renewable energy market.

Prior to Equinor, Al worked at BP, where he was Chief of Staff to the CEO, having joined in 1996 taking on a series of project development and commercial roles in the North Sea and Gulf of Mexico. From 2005, he led the IGB2 Project in Vietnam and acted as President for BP in Vietnam. Al worked from 2009 to 2014 as BP’s Vice President leading developments in Azerbaijan.

Dr. Caroline Kuhnert is a Member of the Executive Committee of the Global Wealth Management Business of UBS AG, the world’s largest wealth manager. She is responsible for the business in Central and Eastern Europe, Greece and Israel. While at UBS she served on various boards of UBS subsidiaries in Europe and Emerging markets. She also serves on the Board for Sustainable Investments at UBS, the UBS Global Visionaries Board and on the Board of the African Youth Initiative.

Caroline’s career in banking spans nearly 30 years with assignments in Vienna, Moscow, London and Zürich. She joined UBS in 1997 in the Investment Bank’s Fixed Income Division where she raised finance for Governments, large corporates and financial institutions.

In the last ten years Caroline has been at the forefront of the transformation of traditional Swiss private banking into providing global comprehensive investment advice and services to the most sophisticated clients and family offices on the globe.

Caroline holds a PhD on Soviet Energy Policy and a Master’s degree in International Comparative Politics. She studied in Paris, Vienna and Moscow and is fluent in German, English, Russian and French. She is married and lives in Zurich.

Kul Chandra Gautam is a distinguished diplomat, development professional and a former senior official of the United Nations. Currently, he serves on the boards of several international and national organizations, charitable foundations and public-private partnerships. Previously, he served in senior managerial and leadership positions with the United Nations in several countries, in a career spanning over three decades. As a former deputy executive director of UNICEF and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, he holds extensive experience in international diplomacy, development cooperation, and humanitarian assistance.

A citizen of Nepal, Kul is active in Nepal’s civil society in promoting human rights, socioeconomic development, democracy, and good governance. He writes on, speaks about, and informally advises Nepal’s political and civil society leadership as well as the international community on Nepal’s peace process, consolidation of democracy, human rights, and socioeconomic development.

Internationally, he continues to be active in advocacy of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly in the areas of child rights, global health, nutrition, basic education, and human development.

  • Pranav Trivedi

    Pranav Trivedi is the Managing Partner of the London office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (Skadden), one of the world’s leading law firms. He leads a team of over 200 lawyers based in the UK capital who deliver cutting edge transactional and dispute resolution advice to public and private corporations, financial sponsors and other major international entities.

    His personal focus is on international corporate finance, including initial public offerings and privatisations, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and private equity. He regularly represents U.S. and Western European companies in corporate finance and M&A transactions involving companies throughout Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.

    Pranav is regularly highlighted as a market-leading lawyer in all reputable independent rankings publications in the legal sector, including Chambers Global, Chambers UK, Chambers Europe, IFLR1000 and The Legal 500 UK. He is also a fluent Russian and Gujarati speaker.

  • Elhadj As Sy

    As Sy is the Chair of the Kofi Annan Foundation Board and Former Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). He has extensive experience in leadership roles in the humanitarian sector, having previously served at a senior level with UNICEF, UNAIDS, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and others for more than 25 years.

    Before joining the IFRC, As worked as UNICEF’s Director of Partnerships and Resource Development in New York. He has also served as UNICEF Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa and Global Emergency Coordinator for the Horn of Africa. From 2005 to 2008, As was Director, HIV/AIDS Practice with the United Nations Development Programme in New York. Before that, he worked with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria as its Africa Regional Director and later as Director of Operational Partnerships and Country Support in Geneva.

    As is a graduate of the Vienna Diplomatic Academy, speaks English, French and German and is a national of Senegal.

  • Dr Anulika Ajufo

    Anulika is the Founder of the Sequoia Platform, a leading educational not for profit focused on social mobility in the United Kingdom and Venture Partner Europe, Middle East and Africa at Sagana. She is a Non-Executive Director at HarbourVest Global Private Equity – a London listed, FTSE 250 private equity investment company and former Chair of the Board of Governors at University of East London.

    Anulika is passionate about young people and education and has led philanthropic activities centred around social mobility and opportunity, impacting the lives of over 1000 young people over the last two decades. She is also passionate about finance and development as well as the need to promote equity in the world’s most fragile countries- all of which she continues to champion across roles in finance and philanthropy.

    Anulika has extensive investment experience and believes in investing for good. Having worked at some of the leading Financial Institutions – Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs in Investment Banking, and Private Equity with The Carlyle Group and Soros Fund, Anulika has developed an impressive investment track record spanning sectors, stages, and geographies across direct and indirect investments.

    She has led the development of greenfield impact investment structures in emerging markets. She has developed inclusive investment strategies for development finance institutions (DFIs), corporations and foundations; of note she co-led the design and implementation of George Soros’ $500 million commitment to programs and companies.

    She has most recently been named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and has been hailed as a “vibrant and inspirational leader in finance and philanthropy”. She has also recently been recognised as an inspirational Senior Leader in Finance in Powerlist’s Twenty-Five Most Influential in the City and Sainty, Hird & Partners Top 50 Black Executives in the City publications.

    Anulika has a Master’s (MEng) in Medical Engineering from Queen Mary University of London and an MSc in Law and Finance from the University of Oxford.

Pranav Trivedi is the Managing Partner of the London office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (Skadden), one of the world’s leading law firms. He leads a team of over 200 lawyers based in the UK capital who deliver cutting edge transactional and dispute resolution advice to public and private corporations, financial sponsors and other major international entities.

His personal focus is on international corporate finance, including initial public offerings and privatisations, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and private equity. He regularly represents U.S. and Western European companies in corporate finance and M&A transactions involving companies throughout Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.

Pranav is regularly highlighted as a market-leading lawyer in all reputable independent rankings publications in the legal sector, including Chambers Global, Chambers UK, Chambers Europe, IFLR1000 and The Legal 500 UK. He is also a fluent Russian and Gujarati speaker.

As Sy is the Chair of the Kofi Annan Foundation Board and Former Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). He has extensive experience in leadership roles in the humanitarian sector, having previously served at a senior level with UNICEF, UNAIDS, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and others for more than 25 years.

Before joining the IFRC, As worked as UNICEF’s Director of Partnerships and Resource Development in New York. He has also served as UNICEF Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa and Global Emergency Coordinator for the Horn of Africa. From 2005 to 2008, As was Director, HIV/AIDS Practice with the United Nations Development Programme in New York. Before that, he worked with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria as its Africa Regional Director and later as Director of Operational Partnerships and Country Support in Geneva.

As is a graduate of the Vienna Diplomatic Academy, speaks English, French and German and is a national of Senegal.

Anulika is the Founder of the Sequoia Platform, a leading educational not for profit focused on social mobility in the United Kingdom and Venture Partner Europe, Middle East and Africa at Sagana. She is a Non-Executive Director at HarbourVest Global Private Equity – a London listed, FTSE 250 private equity investment company and former Chair of the Board of Governors at University of East London.

Anulika is passionate about young people and education and has led philanthropic activities centred around social mobility and opportunity, impacting the lives of over 1000 young people over the last two decades. She is also passionate about finance and development as well as the need to promote equity in the world’s most fragile countries- all of which she continues to champion across roles in finance and philanthropy.

Anulika has extensive investment experience and believes in investing for good. Having worked at some of the leading Financial Institutions – Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs in Investment Banking, and Private Equity with The Carlyle Group and Soros Fund, Anulika has developed an impressive investment track record spanning sectors, stages, and geographies across direct and indirect investments.

She has led the development of greenfield impact investment structures in emerging markets. She has developed inclusive investment strategies for development finance institutions (DFIs), corporations and foundations; of note she co-led the design and implementation of George Soros’ $500 million commitment to programs and companies.

She has most recently been named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and has been hailed as a “vibrant and inspirational leader in finance and philanthropy”. She has also recently been recognised as an inspirational Senior Leader in Finance in Powerlist’s Twenty-Five Most Influential in the City and Sainty, Hird & Partners Top 50 Black Executives in the City publications.

Anulika has a Master’s (MEng) in Medical Engineering from Queen Mary University of London and an MSc in Law and Finance from the University of Oxford.

  • Susana Edjang

    Susana Edjang is the Country Representative in Ecuador of CAF – the development bank for Latin America and the Caribbean. A Spanish and Equatorial Guinean national, Susana has more than 16 years of experience in international development from the Americas, Africa and Europe. Since 2011, she has worked in different roles in various United Nations agencies, including: with the World Food Programme, the United Nations Security Council, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and seven years in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, as manager of his global movement ‘Every Woman, Every Child’ and as an adviser on economic affairs, social and development. Previously, Susana was advisor for global health and climate change in the House of Lords at the British Parliament, and manager of the British NGO THET, which establishes alliances between health systems. Susana holds a Diploma in Physiotherapy from the Complutense University of Madrid, a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Development Economics from the University of London´s School of Oriental and African Studies, a Master’s in Public Administration from the JF Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Susana is a 2014 Yale Global Fellow.

Susana Edjang is the Country Representative in Ecuador of CAF – the development bank for Latin America and the Caribbean. A Spanish and Equatorial Guinean national, Susana has more than 16 years of experience in international development from the Americas, Africa and Europe. Since 2011, she has worked in different roles in various United Nations agencies, including: with the World Food Programme, the United Nations Security Council, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and seven years in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, as manager of his global movement ‘Every Woman, Every Child’ and as an adviser on economic affairs, social and development. Previously, Susana was advisor for global health and climate change in the House of Lords at the British Parliament, and manager of the British NGO THET, which establishes alliances between health systems. Susana holds a Diploma in Physiotherapy from the Complutense University of Madrid, a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Development Economics from the University of London´s School of Oriental and African Studies, a Master’s in Public Administration from the JF Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Susana is a 2014 Yale Global Fellow.

Technical Advisory Panel

Our Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) provide independent assessments of proposed interventions and the potential impact of new programmes before they are submitted to The Power of Nutrition’s Board for approval. The panel is composed of experts in the fields of nutrition and public health, with experience across The Power of Nutrition’s eligible countries. Members of the panel serve the TAP in their individual capacity.

For each new programme, panel members are selected to form a review committee, which then submits an independent report to The Power of Nutrition Board. We are extremely grateful for the valuable insights and commitments made by our Technical Advisory Panel members to date.

The TAP is composed of experts in the fields of nutrition and public health, who have experience across The Power of Nutrition’s eligible countries.If you would like to be considered to become a member of the TAP, please do send an email to info@powerofnutrition.org.

Dr Jack Clift currently serves as Program Director for Nutrition at Results for Development (R4D), where he oversees a portfolio of projects focusing on nutrition finance, market shaping and private sector engagement, and strategic support to nutrition development partners. Prior to R4D, Dr Clift’s background includes private sector strategy work with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and public sector policy research at the RAND Corporation. He has a PhD in Policy Analysis (Economics focus) from the Pardee RAND Graduate School, a Masters in Public Policy from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Bachelors in Literae Humaniores from the University of Oxford.

Over 25-years Alison has been involved in programme design, management, monitoring and evaluation of health and nutrition programmes in LMICs. She gained first-hand experience of programme implementation, working with national and sub-national governments to improve primary health care, reproductive and maternal health and strengthen health and nutrition systems. Alison led technical assistance teams in Nepal and India between 2003 and 2012, with the latter years focussed on integrated health, nutrition and WASH programming in Odisha, India. From Odisha, Alison returned to London as Technical Director of Options Consultancy Services, providing technical oversight of programmes in South Asia and Africa.

Andrew Hall is a public health nutritionist and parasitologist with 40 years’ experience of work in more than 30 countries on research, surveys, evaluations and programmes in nutrition and neglected tropical diseases.

Fabian obtained his PhD in human nutrition from the ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has since been involved in managing, monitoring and evaluating nutrition and public health programs. He is currently acting as the President of GroundWork, an organisation focusing on programmatic evaluations and large-scale nutrition surveys across the globe.

In the current and past positions, Fabian had projects in over 25 countries, many of which in sub-Saharan Africa.

Heather Danton is the Project Director of the Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Activity (MSNA), USAID’s global nutrition project. An employee of John Snow Research & Training Institute, Inc., Heather previously served as the Director for Food Security and Nutrition under the Strengthening Partnerships, Results and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) project. With a background in agriculture, food security and nutrition, Heather has 30 years of experience implementing, managing and evaluting multisectoral nutrition programs around the world.

Trained as a public health physician in Australia, Prof. Ian Darnton-Hill has over 40 years  experience in a variety of health-related organizations and in different countries – from Bangladesh, the highlands of Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and Zambia to Geneva, New York, Sydney and Washington, DC. Areas of expertise span public health interventions, health policy, and analysis of national and other programmes, with an emphasis on public health nutrition, particularly micronutrients including fortification. Currently a Consultant, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Sydney, Australia, and Tufts University, USA, he was previously Special Adviser to the UNICEF Executive Director on Child Hunger and Undernutrition. Before that, he was Acting Chief, Nutrition Section, and Senior Adviser, Child Survival and Nutrition, at UNICEF HQ. He was Senior Global Health Leadership Fellow at WHO HQ, Vice-President for Programs at HKI, Director of the Opportunities for Micronutrient Interventions (OMNI) Project (USAID/JSI), and WHO Regional Adviser in Nutrition.

Karin Lapping is a public health nutritionist who has spent the past 17 years working in international health, with a professional and academic focus on the prevention of chronic malnutrition in developing countries across Asia and Africa. Karin is currently working at FHI 360 as Project Director of Alive & Thrive. Alive & Thrive scales up nutrition to save lives, prevent illness, and ensure healthy growth and development through improved maternal, infant and young child nutrition. Karin assumed this role after serving as Senior Director of Nutrition at Save the Children for 4 years where she directed the global nutrition portfolio.

Karin holds a B.A. in Religious Studies from Colby College, a Masters in Public Health from Emory University in Infectious Disease and a PhD from Tufts University in Food Policy and Applied Nutrition.

Klaus Kraemer is the Managing Director of Sight and Life, a nutrition think tank headquartered in Switzerland, and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of International Health of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA. Klaus provides leadership, vision, and direction for a global team across 4 continents, interacts with funders and partners, and is the key spokesperson of the organisation. He edits Sight and Life magazine, serves several professional societies, is a reviewer for a number of scientific journals, has published over 130 scientific articles, reviews, and book chapters, and has co-edited 12 books and coordinated four special supplements in the field of micronutrients, food systems and health. Klaus holds a doctoral degree in nutrition science from the University of Giessen, Germany.

Melanie Swan is the Global Technical Lead for Early Childhood Development (ECD) for Plan International since 2015. She has a medical background, a Masters in Health Policy Planning and Financing in Developing Countries from LSHTM/LSE and previously worked for a decade in Latin America supporting Plan’s MNCH, nutrition and ECD programming.

Rita Bhatia brings in extensive experience and expertise in managing Public Health Nutrition programmes, working in humanitarian crises and development operations around the world with the UN and NGOs.

Roger Mathisen is a Clinical Nutritionist (MSc, RD) with two decades of national and international experience developing and managing health and nutrition programs in multi-cultural environments. He is currently the Southeast Asia Program Director for Alive & Thrive, overseeing activities in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines. His previous employment includes UNICEF and the Norwegian Refugee Council, as well as roles in academia and the private sector across Africa, Asia and Europe.

Marcia Griffiths is President of The Manoff Group (TMG), a global leader in social and behaviour change (SBC)programming to improve the effectiveness of health and nutrition investments. She has served as TMG President for 30 years, developing the Behavior-Centered Programming approach to maximize positive behaviour outcomes. Serving as a senior advisor in nutrition and SBC for numerous USAID, World Bank, and government programs, she is recognized for her ability to elevate the voice of program participants in program design and implementation, for her strategic programming skills and innovation in solving recurring resistances to the practice of nutrition-promoting behaviours. Marcia is also well known for her work promoting healthy child growth across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Rahul Rawat is a senior program officer on the nutrition team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Rahul previously served as a senior research fellow and Theme Leader for Africa Nutrition Programs at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). His work focuses primarily on evidence generation and synthesis, and use of data, in support of the scale-up of interventions to reduce the burden of undernutrition in women and children.

Anne has more than 20 years professional experience in the field of public health and nutrition both at global level and in a wide range of countries including Kenya, Somalia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Indonesia and the UK, in both humanitarian and development contexts. She has significant experience in policy and strategic development, programme design, development of technical guidance and tools, monitoring and evaluation, quality assurance and research. Over her career, she has provided technical assistance to donors, governments, UN agencies and NGOs. Specific areas of interest include multisectoral approaches to addressing malnutrition, particularly the integration of nutrition and health through system strengthening, and community-based approaches.

Arvind has over 15 years of experience in Health and Nutrition. He is currently the Senior Rice Fortification Advisor for Asia and Pacific at the World Food Programme where he is responsible for scaling rice fortification across Asia and Pacific. His work focuses primarily on working with governments to introduce and integrate fortified rice into supply chains by strengthening food delivery systems. Arvind has been instrumental in scaling up rice fortification in India and other parts of Asia through the safety net  programs.

He has extensive experience in building public private partnerships in the area of nutrition and health.  His has previously worked with NITI Aayog – Government of India, PATH and CARE.

Reports

 

The Power of Nutrition is committed to being as open and as transparent as possible. Our annual reports and minutes of our most recent board meetings can be found below: