Ernest Loevinsohn
Director General, Program Against Hunger, Malnutrition and Disease, Multilateral Programs Branch, Canadian International Development Agency
Ernest Loevinsohn is the Director General of the Program Against Hunger, Malnutrition and Disease in the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Related to his involvement with GAIN, Loevinsohn is a founding board member of the Micronutrient Initiative, a not-for-profit organization working on vitamin and mineral deficiency in developing countries. He is also Chairman of the board of Results, a non-governmental organization working on hunger and poverty, economic empowerment, health and education. After receiving his doctorate from Princeton University, Loevinsohn worked for the NGO Bread for the World. In 1984 he was appointed as the first staff director of the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Hunger. Following his work for Congress, Loevinsohn joined the Canadian Government’s Department of Finance where he came to lead the division covering the IMF, World Bank and G-7, and served as Canada’s Chief debt negotiator at the Paris Club. He then became Director General, Policy, for CIDA and went on to establish the Agency’s Program Against Hunger, Malnutrition and Disease. At the international level, Loevinsohn chairs Stop Tuberculosis, the global partnership of developing countries, WHO, the World Bank, NGOs, donors and others. He also represents Australia, Britain, Canada, Germany and Switzerland on the Board of the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
