Catherine Bertini
| Cathy Bertini | |
|---|---|
| Executive Director of the World Food Programme | |
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In office April 1992 – April 2002 |
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| Secretary General |
Boutros Boutros-Ghali Kofi Annan |
| Preceded by | James Ingram |
| Succeeded by | James Morris |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
March 31, 1950 Syracuse, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Education | State University of New York, Albany (BA) |
Catherine "Cathy" Bertini is a leader in international organization management, girls education, humanitarian action, agricultural development, and the role of gender in poverty reduction. She is the 2003 World Food Prize Laureate. She was the Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Program from 1992 to 2002. Currently, she is Vice Chair of the Public Administration and International Affairs department at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University. She is distinguished fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
During the George H.W. Bush administration, Catherine Bertini served as Acting Assistant Secretary of the Family Support Administration in the United States Department of Health and Human Services, and as Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Food and Consumer Services at the United States Department of Agriculture. Her portfolio included then $33 billion domestic food assistance programs, strategy on nutrition and consumer affairs, and her team developed the first Food Guide Pyramid to promote healthy diets. She also led the interagency efforts to replace food coupons and welfare checks with electronic benefit cards, and through the administration's Farm Bill proposals, worked with Congress to change the law to allow states to implement electronic benefit transfer (EBT). By 2004, all states had converted to electronic benefit transfer program. Additionally, Bertini created a food package for low income breastfeeding mothers. Initiation of this package correlated directly with increases in the percentage of low income American mothers who breastfed their infants.
During the Reagan administration, Bertini served as the Director of the Office of Family Assistance at DHHS. She was responsible for regulations that strengthened education and training support for the poorest American women in support of the Family Support Act of 1988.
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