Dr. Joanne Raisin

Biography

Dr. Joanne Raisin brings over 25 years humanitarian and development experience to the SUN Director role. She has over 20 years’ experience in the UK’s former Department for International Development (DFID) and, and more recently, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) working on a broad range of food security and nutrition agendas.

She has extensive field experience leading food and nutrition programmes and associated policy reforms and advocacy in fragile, humanitarian and development contexts including in Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Zambia, and Malawi. Most recently, she led the UK’s humanitarian, food and nutrition security, and human rights work in Myanmar, building a platform for local leadership, a championing nutrition.

She brings extensive experience in cash policy and programmes, and was an early advocate and pioneer of safety nets across Africa and Asia, aimed at leveraging nutrition outcomes. Throughout her career, she has worked with a broad range of stakeholders – the UN, governments, civil society and the private sector - to bring greater focus and financing to nutrition outcomes and champion national ownership of food and nutrition security.

She holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree specialized in famine from the School of Peace Studies, and a Bachelor’s specializing in Development – both from the University of Bradford.