Annette Mongina Nyangaresi

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Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, GAIN has offices in countries with high levels of malnutrition: Bangladesh, Benin, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. To support work in those countries, we have representative offices in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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Annette is a Food and Nutrition, and Agriculture Specialist currently working for the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) as a Technical Specialist in the Knowledge Leadership unit. Her work at GAIN spans program design and implementation, research, and evaluations and learning across large-scale food fortification, biofortification, and other nutrition-sensitive agriculture programs, with a cross-cutting focus on gender and food safety.

Annette holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Food Science and Nutrition from Moi University, Kenya, and a Master of Science degree in Agriculture (International Environmental and Agricultural Science) from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan. She is an alumna of the African Nutrition Leadership Programme (23rd Cohort), the Food Systems Leadership Programme (2nd Cohort), and the African Business Education (ABE) Initiative (2nd Cohort).