Anna Lartey

UN Network Steering Committee member

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Biography

Professor Lartey is, since 2013, the Director of the Nutrition Division at the FAO. Prior to that she was professor and the Head of Department at the department of Nutrition and Food Science at the University of Ghana where she worked since 1986. She has won several honors and rewards related to her work on nutrition such as the African Nutrition Society award in 2014 as well as the Sight and Life nutrition leadership award. Between 2013 and 2017 she was also the president of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences.

Ms. Lartey worked as a researcher in Sub-Saharan Africa for 27 years on maternal and child nutrition. She has contributed to over 80 peer reviewed academic publications about nutrition and the food system and she has given over 100 keynote presentations. In 1998 she finished her PhD on international nutrition at the University of California in Davis.