Quotes by Josette Sheeran

About Josette Sheeran:

Josette Sheeran was Vice Chairman of the World Economic Forum. Sheeran assumed that position on the conclusion of her term at the World Food Programme. She was the eleventh Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General Jacques Diouf in November 2006. Prior to this post, she served as the United States Under Secretary for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs in the State Department.
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There's nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food - the most fundamental expectation of every human being.

Josette Sheeran

Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes - the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things - there is nothing to fall back on.

Josette Sheeran

If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.

Josette Sheeran

Women are the face of hunger. Hunger has a female face. It affects women disproportionately, and therefore it affects children as well, and it gets passed on inter-generationally, too.

Josette Sheeran

Author Bio

  • NameJosette Sheeran
  • DescriptionAmerican diplomat
  • Born1954
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionDiplomat