Emily and WFP Asia head travelled via UN Plane to Bande Aceh, Indonesia, during the Tsunami of 2004.
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Job Description
UN World Food Programme
 

UNITED NATIONS WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME (WFP) January 2006 - February 2007
London, England and Rome, Italy    
Executive Business Advisor to the Executive Director

Key Components of Creating WFP Emergency Network
• Made presentations to Citigroup senior management to describe and secure authorization for the partnership
• Created project plan and managed direct staff of six
• Coordinated all internal WFP participants in the project
• Created list of logistics and technology goods needed
• Organized due diligence process and research to select potential corporate partners
• Researched and resolved tax and legal ramifications of donations
• Created internal database for goods management at depots
• Developed external website and scroll-down database for corporate usage
• Organized launch/press conference at the World Economic Forum and Citigroup co-host for WFP CEO dinner
• Authored several articles for internal and external Citigroup publications on the partnership
 
Other WFP Job Components and Experiences
Citigroup
• Assisted WFP in connecting with Citigroup Continuity of Business (COB) experts to develop the WFP and, eventually, the UN model for COB
• Assisted WFP in connecting with Citigroup Compliance and Audit executives to help WFP ensure best practices in its external audit function
 
Private Sector Liaison Work
• Advised fundraising division of WFP on corporate partnerships
• Created internal Citigroup events in conjunction with WFP including screening of the film Constant Gardener in London for Corporate Clients
• Developed marketing material and video on WFP for Citigroup Global Banking offsite
• Organized several corporate client dinners for WFP Executive Director, speaking engagements for WFP at Citigroup corporate sponsored events, and organized individual meetings with volunteers and other corporate sponsors
• Worked closely with other WFP partners including Boston Consulting Group, TNT, Spencer Stuart, The World Economic Forum Global Institute for Partnership and Governance, and INSEAD Humanitarian Operations
• Spoke at UN conferences on public-private partnerships in humanitarian affairs
 
Assistance to Executive Director of WFP
• Assisted the Executive Director of WFP, James T. Morris, in his transition in retirement from WFP, which included detailing the history of WFP from 2002 to 2007, covering such diverse topics as Child Hunger, Darfur, The Iraq War, Pakistan Earthquake, HIV/Aids Orphans, and The Tsunami.
• Attended Congressional testimony given by the Executive Director on Ending Child Hunger to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Washington, DC, September 2006)
• Attended as honored guest a dinner with Koffi Annan, Secretary General of the UN, at the home of James T. Morris, Executive Director of WFP
 
WFP Site Visits
• Spent two weeks in Kampala and Gulu, Uganda on personal trip to learn about WFP operations in the field, visiting orphanages, hospitals, schools, night walkers, and IDP camps in the war district of Northern Uganda, where over 13,000 people were fed in one camp in a single day
• Participated as team member of the UN Special Envoy Mission to Southern Africa which included meetings with Heads of State, donors, NGOs, recipients, and press covering South Africa, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique
• Visited WFP technology depot and operations hub in Dubai for the FITTEST Technology Force for Global Disasters
• Visited WFP depot for logistics in Brindisi, Italy, where the emergency supplies for the Emergency Network are stored

 
 
                           
 
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