Catherine Bertini

Catherine Bertini is an American public servant. She is the 2003 World Food Prize Laureate. She was the Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Program from 1992 to 2002. She served as the UN Under-Secretary for Management from 2003 to 2005. Currently she is a distinguished fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the Chair of the Board of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and the Chair of the Executive Board of the Crop Trust.

Cathy Bertini
Executive Director of the World Food Programme
In office
April 1992  April 2002
Secretary GeneralBoutros Boutros-Ghali
Kofi Annan
Preceded byJames Ingram
Succeeded byJames Morris
Personal details
Born (1950-03-30) March 30, 1950
Syracuse, New York, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
EducationState University of New York, Albany (BA)
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