REACH Global coordinator bio
Nancy Walters has been working in the field of
international development and humanitarian action
for over 25 years. Her experience covers a wide range
of operations, with a special interest in food security,
nutrition and nutrition-sensitive programmes,
strategic planning and results-based management.
Over her career, she has worked in Mali, Egypt, Lesotho and Ghana and
at WFP's Headquarters in Rome with the Africa and Middle East, Central
Asia and Eastern Europe Bureaux and the Office of the Executive
Director. She has been Senior Regional Programme Adviser for
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Iran and focused on results-based
management. In 2008-2011, she was Chief of the School Feeding Service
in the Policy, Planning and Strategy Division, where she moved forward
WFP's flagship programme through global partnerships with a view to
reaching hungry schoolchildren through nationally owned and sourced
school-feeding programmes. Ms. Walters was also the Chair of the UN
Standing Committee on Nutrition School Age Children Working Group.
Since 2011 Ms Walters has been WFP Representative and Country
Director in Mali.