Afshan Khan is UN Assistant Secretary-General and Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Coordinator. With over 30 years as an international public official, she most recently served as UNICEF Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia and as Special Coordinator for the Refugee and Migrant Response in Europe. Her roles in UNICEF include Director of Emergency Programmes, Director Public Alliances and Resource Mobilization and Associate Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa, as well as UNICEF Representative in Jamaica. She has served in Kenya, Mozambique, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Colombia and Jamaica. Ms. Khan worked in the Executive Office of the Secretary General and in UN Coordination, as well as in Civil Society as CEO of Women for Women International. Born in Hyderabad, India, and raised in Montreal, Canada, she holds a Master’s degree in Public
Policy from Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from McGill University. She is fluent in English, French and Urdu.

Danielle Nierenberg is a world-renowned researcher, speaker, and advocate on all issues relating to our food system and agriculture. In 2013, Danielle Nierenberg co-founded Food Tank (foodtank.com) with Bernard Pollack, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization focused on building a global community for safe, healthy, nourished eaters. Food Tank is a global convener, thought leadership organization, and unbiased creator of original research impacting the food system. Danielle has an M.S. in Agriculture, Food, and Environment from the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and spent two years volunteering for the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic. Danielle is the recipient of the 2020 Julia Child Award.

Dr. Gunhild A. Stordalen is the founder and executive chair of EAT and a transformative force in linking climate, health, and sustainability to revolutionize the global food system. Dr. Stordalen has brought together world leaders, scientists, business leaders and NGOs to address one of the most critical questions of our time: How can we create sustainable, resilient, and just food systems that deliver healthy diets for everyone, everywhere. She started EAT in 2013 as a global initiative together with her co-founder Professor Johan Rockstrom. In 2016, they joined forces with Wellcome Trust, and established EAT as a foundation with a science-based multi-stakeholder approach to solving the world´s food issues, making a lasting impact on food security and environmental sustainability. Dr. Stordalen is a renowned public speaker and her commitment to
a healthy, sustainable and just future has earned her accolades such as being named WWF Sweden’s Environmental Hero of the Year, Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and the UN Foundation’s Global Leadership Award. She has been ranked among the 150 most influential business communicators in Sweden by the news magazine Resumé and among the 100 most powerful women in Norway by the financial magazine Kapital. Dr. Stordalen is a medical doctor with a
PhD in pathology/orthopedic surgery. She is involved in numerous boards and councils, including the United Nation’s Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Lead Group, the World Economic Forum (WEF) Stewardship Board on Food Systems, REQ Capital Advisory Board, Africa Europe Women Leaders Network, and the international advisory board of the
Stockholm Resilience Center. In addition, Gunhild is an ambassador for Friends of Ocean action, a WEF Champion for Nature and a HELENA member. In 2020, Gunhild was appointed to a leading role at the UN Food Systems Summit 2021, as the Chair of the Summit’s Action Track 2: Shifting to Healthy and Sustainable Consumption Patterns.

Monika Froehler is CEO of the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens and is a passionate change maker, advocate, founder and speaker. She was entrusted to create the BKMC after working at the UN in Geneva, NY and Vienna, the EU, the Austrian Foreign Ministry and in field missions around the globe. She is passionate about the implementation of the SDGs and the Paris Climate Agreement. Throughout her career she managed to support hundreds of women, young people and communities all over the globe e.g. working in Africa and Latin America to ban landmines; working to improve hospital care in rural Central Asia and Africa; assisting in eco-friendly city planning in Asia and bettering the living conditions of women in the Middle East and West-Africa.

Morgan Gillespy is the Global Director of the Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU). In this role, she provides strategic leadership to the coalition, working collaboratively across the FOLU network to advance the FOLU agenda with governments, the private sector, financial institutions, and civil society. Prior to this, Morgan spent seven years at CDP where she worked across its Technical, Supply Chain, Water and Forests programs. She was named Head of Water Security in 2016 was Global Director, Forests from 2017 – 2020. She holds an MSc from Imperial College London, specializing in Environmental Assessment and Analysis.

Namukolo Covic (Zambia) is ILRI Director General’s Representative to Ethiopia, CGIAR Ethiopia Country Convenor, and CGIAR Regional Director for East and Southern Africa. She has served as a Senior Research Coordinator at the IFPRI on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)  in different African countries. Her extensive experience straddles the interface of policy, dynamics of agriculture and food systems, and related interventions. She has been involved in numerous activities, collaborating with national governments, regional and continental bodies, and various non-state actors to drive food systems transformation and nutrition initiatives. Namukolo has worked extensively with the government of Ethiopia and other stakeholders on different fronts of food systems and nutrition, including the development of food-based dietary guidelines and their adaptation to pastoralist settings, and the development of Ethiopia’s food systems transformation pathway. She has supported African Union’s efforts on linking agriculture and nutrition in the Africa Union – Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP). She leads the Governance Working Group of an Independent Expert Group that emerged from the UNFSS.