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Ertharin Cousin [1957-0] American

Rank: 104
Public Servant, Executive Director of the World Food Programme

Ertharin Cousin is, since 2012, the twelfth Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme.
From 2009 to 2012, Cousin served under President Barack Obama as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, serving in Rome, Italy, and chief of the United States Mission to the UN Agencies in Rome.

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If we're afraid to stand in our own skin with those we work with, then how do we lead those who have no voice at all?		101
When you're providing emergency aid, you're fighting hunger; you're filling stomachs.		102
Our goals and what we hope to achieve by moving to food assistance is even in supporting the crisis needs of the most vulnerable people, we provide them with the capacity to be more resilient to the next shock.		103
Too often, as a global community of humanitarians, we meet the needs of the same families, the same individuals, the same communities crisis after crisis, when we are focused on meeting crisis needs but not on building resilience.		104
The people in the United States are some of the most generous people in the world. We saw it in Haiti. We saw it with Katrina. When devastation strikes, American people want to step up.		105
I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power.		106
When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms.		107
The majority of small-holder farmers in Africa are women and, in urban areas, you're primarily looking at women-led households. So we can't solve hunger if we don't have gender-sensitive programming that addresses access to opportunities for women, whether it's through education or tools for cooking, like solar-powered stoves.		108
I'm lucky. As soon as I open my mouth, people see I know what I'm talking about, and when I leave the room, I think most say, 'She's OK.'		109
Unfortunately, the world pays attention when the media shines a light on those in need, which is why it's so important that we maintain the global public will that is necessary to meet the needs of those we serve.		110
We recognize that the majority of people who are food-insecure or hungry in the world live in rural areas. And most of them are small holder subsistence farmers.		111
One of my strengths is my ability to talk and communicate with people.		112
Don't ever take a seven-year-old with you to a campaign dinner - they will embarrass you no end.		113

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