Melese Temesgen

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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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Melese Temesgen is Nutrition Specialist and worked more than 10 years in areas of Food fortification, Food science and nutrition, with government and Non-governmental organizations. After joining GAIN in 2022, he played a great role in strengthening food fortification stakeholder’s partnership towards the GAIN Large Scale Food Fortification Programme in the country.