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Josette Sheeran [1954-0] American
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Public Servant


Josette Sheeran has 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.


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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.
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Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes - the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things - there is nothing to fall back on.
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If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.
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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.
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