Marti J. van Liere (PhD)

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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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Marti J. van Liere (PhD), the Director of Programs at the Micronutrient Forum, is a public health nutrition expert with 35 years of experience in international development, focusing on food and nutrition security, maternal and child nutrition, programme and project management, and multisectoral and multi-stakeholder partnerships between public and private sectors.

She has worked for international nutrition organizations, research and public health institutes, and private sector and has lived and worked in Bangladesh, Bénin, France, Switzerland and the Netherlands. Marti has engaged private sector companies in nutrition (GAIN, Unilever), initiated new work areas (adolescent nutrition, work force nutrition) and set up, managed and supported global collaboration platforms (SUN Business Network, National Information Platforms for Nutrition, Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Consortium). She has a MSc and PhD in Human Nutrition from the University of Wageningen, the Netherlands.