26 Facts About Catherine Bertini

Catherine Bertini was the Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Program from 1992 to 2002.

Catherine Bertini served as the UN Under-Secretary for Management from 2003 to 2005.

Catherine Bertini earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the State University of New York at Albany.

At Albany, Bertini was president of the College Republicans and worked full-time in the last gubernatorial campaign of Nelson A Rockefeller.

Catherine Bertini is credited with assisting hundreds of millions of victims of wars and natural disasters throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and parts of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Catherine Bertini led efforts to empower poor women through the use of food aid.

Catherine Bertini chaired the UN System Standing Committee on Nutrition and served as the Secretary General's envoy twice: for drought in the Horn of Africa and for humanitarian needs in Gaza and the West Bank.

Catherine Bertini was responsible for administering the United Nations' human, financial and physical resources.

Catherine Bertini contributed to the development of the foundation's new agricultural framework, seeking to improve the lives of poor farmers, especially women farmers.

Catherine Bertini led the first gender initiatives at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Catherine Bertini is a Distinguished Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

Catherine Bertini helped create and co-chaired the council's Global Agriculture Development Initiative from 2008 to 2013.

Catherine Bertini chaired the council's two Girls in Rural Economies projects, one in 2011 and one in 2018 and co-chaired the council's domestic Agriculture Task Force in 2007 and 2012.

From 2017 to 2019 Catherine Bertini served as a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow.

Catherine Bertini worked on a fellowship project titled "Leadership in Response to a Changing World" which reviewed the international institutions and programs that could help advance humanitarian relief, development, and pandemic response.

Catherine Bertini published a report titled "Leading Change in United Nations Organizations", which gives guidance to incoming senior management in the United Nations and advice on leading transformational change.

Bush administration, Catherine Bertini served as Acting Assistant Secretary of the Family Support Administration in the United States Department of Health and Human Services, and as Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Food and Consumer Services at the United States Department of Agriculture.

Catherine Bertini was responsible for regulations that strengthened education and training support for the poorest American women in support of the Family Support Act of 1988.

In 2012, Catherine Bertini was named to serve on the State Department's five-member Accountability Review Board that examined the facts and circumstances of the attacks on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

In 2005, Catherine Bertini joined the faculty of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

Catherine Bertini taught graduate courses in Managing Change in the United Nations, Girl's Education, International Organizations, Executive Leadership, Food Security, and Post-Conflict Reconstruction.

Catherine Bertini served for one year as Chair of the International Relations Department and one year as the vice-chair of the Public Administration and International Affairs Department.

Catherine Bertini taught at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs for twelve years and in 2018 was named professor emeritus.

Catherine Bertini is the 2003 World Food Prize Laureate and, in 2007, was awarded the Gene White Lifetime Achievement Award for Child Nutrition.

Catherine Bertini has been named a Champion of the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit.

Catherine Bertini is the recipient of the 2011 Borlaug CAST Communication Award.