Anna Taylor, The Food Foundation

Anna Taylor joined The Food Foundation as its first Executive Director at the beginning of June 2015, after five years at the UK’s Department for International Development (DIFD). At DFID, she led the policy team on nutrition and supported the delivery of the UK’s global commitments to tackle undernutrition. Previously, Taylor worked for a number of international organisations including Save the Children and UNICEF and has been at the forefront of international leadership on nutrition for several years, supporting programmes in a wide range of contexts in Africa and South Asia. She has also worked for the UK Department of Health and in 2014 she was awarded an OBE for her work to address the global burden of undernutrition. Taylor achieved her MSc in Human Nutrition at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1994.