FAO High Level Panel of Experts

The High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) is a group put together by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.


 * "The High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) on food security and nutrition has been created as part of the reform of the international governance of food security to advise the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) which is the foremost intergovernmental and international platform dealing with food security and nutrition."

Members
The HLPE consists of:
 * Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, Chairperson (India)
 * Maryam Rahmanian, Vice-Chairperson (Iran)
 * Catherine Bertini (United States of America)
 * Martin S. Kumar (since 1st July 2011, in replacement of Derek Byerlee) (Australia)
 * Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher (Ethiopia)
 * Lawrence Haddad (United Kingdom)
 * Sheryl Lee Hendriks (South Africa)
 * Alain de Janvry (France)
 * Renato Maluf (Brazil)
 * Mona Mehrez Aly (Egypt)
 * Carlos Perez del Castillo (Uruguay)
 * Roelof Rabbinge (Netherlands)
 * Huajun Tang (China)
 * Igor Tikhonovich (Russia)
 * Niracha Wongchinda (Thailand)

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