Luke Lindberg, USDA’s undersecretary for trade and foreign agricultural affairs, is a leading contender to become executive ...
Cindy McCain’s tenure running the World Food Program will end prematurely. The executive director announced on February 26 that she planned to resign for health reasons following a stroke in October.
Cindy McCain will be stepping down as head of the United Nations World Food Programme to focus on her health, the humanitarian organization announced on Thursday. McCain, 71, suffered a mild stroke in ...
ROME (AP) — U.N. World Food Program Executive Director Cindy McCain announced on Thursday that she will step down as the head of the humanitarian organization in three months to focus on her health.
ROME: The World Food Programme warned that rising food and fuel prices could push global hunger to higher levels, adding that the military escalation in the Middle East has already brought immediate ...
Kigali, Rwanda - March 12, 2026 -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and Impact Hub Kigali (IHK) have launched the fourth edition of the IGNITE Challenge. The IGNITE Challenge 4.0 will ...
In this opinion piece, Kip Tom, a former ambassador to the UN food and agriculture agencies, says the World Food Program needs an executive director who has the knowledge, experience and relationships ...
The next WFP chief could help the UN emergency food agency save millions of lives – or walk away from a starving world.