Carl Skau is Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer. In this role, he leads the organization¡¯s overall coordination, strategic direction, humanitarian diplomacy, and support for field operations. He also supports corporate efforts to maximize Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s inter-agency collaboration and partnerships.
Luke J. Lindberg is the Executive Director of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ. He brings extensive experience in international leadership, institutional reform, agricultural diplomacy and global food assistance. His work has focused on strengthening organizational performance, improving governance and accountability, and mobilizing resources to deliver results in complex, high-pressure environments.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ has been working with the Government and local authorities to help implement the National School Nutrition Reform, initiated by the First Lady, which aims to provide every child with daily nutritious meals.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ works in Ukraine to support people affected by the war, focused on frontline areas and the most vulnerable, such as the displaced, elderly people and people with disabilities.
Joyce Kanyangwa Luma is the Assistant Executive Director ad interim for Workplace and Management, having returned to Â鶹ÊÓƵ following her retirement to serve in this role.
Christophe Monier has served as Chief Financial Officer of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) since August 2026. He brings more than 30 years of experience across the United Nations system, with expertise spanning finance and budget management, programme planning, business transformation, information technology and corporate management.
The Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Food Assistance for Training (FFT) links short-term food support with market skills, job connections and access to assets and finance, so vulnerable people can earn income and improve food security.
The Kyrgyz Republic faces a complex and evolving nutrition challenge. Despite progress in reducing childhood malnutrition over the past decade, recent trends show stagnation and even reversal in key indicators.
The SEWAA project, launched in 2023, uses machine learning, specifically Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs), to improve early-warning systems for extreme weather in Eastern Africa.
Valerie Guarnieri is the Chief of Staff, ad interim of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ). From 2018 through 2025, Ms. Guarnieri served as Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s Assistant Executive Director for Programme Operations, overseeing the development of Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s Strategic Plan and the design and delivery of food, cash and technical assistance programmes to meet emergency needs, strengthen human capital and improve food security. Previously, she led the global programme function, and held regional and country leadership positions, based in Kenya, the Philippines and Zimbabwe.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ has anchored the Country Strategic Plan 2022-2026 to a complementary nexus approach, in line with the Cameroon National Development Strategy (NDS-30). To complement Government¡¯s efforts towards achieving SDGs 2 and 17, Â鶹ÊÓƵ implements activities that seek to tackle the main causes of food insecurity, create pathways to resilience building and strengthen the local capacities to be able to respond to emergencies appropriately
The Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Food Assistance for Assets programme helps vulnerable communities face climate shocks, by providing food or cash while they restore degraded ecosystems and rebuild small-scale infrastructure. Activities include water harvesting, irrigation, reforestation and flood protection, with the impact monitored via satellite data.
Food fortification provides a cost-effective and life-changing solution to micronutrient malnutrition by adding essential vitamins and minerals such as iron, iodine, vitamins A and B, and folic acid to everyday staples like flour, rice, oil and salt.
Mr. Ally-Raza Qureshi is Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Chief Financial Officer ad interim. A national of Pakistan, Mr. Qureshi brings to this role more than twenty?three years of distinguished service with Â鶹ÊÓƵ, supported by a professional background spanning the humanitarian, development, and private sectors. He began his career as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers before transitioning to international humanitarian work in 2001.
This report presents the key results of Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s operations in Guinea?Bissau in 2024, highlighting achievements across programme areas, beneficiaries reached and financial performance.
