Items Tagged with 'World Food Program USA'

Alyssa Houtby has joined the North American Blueberry Council as the new director of government affairs and Loree Dowse and Paul Ensley have joined Church Bros. Farms.

Erick Lutt is now the director of federal government affairs for Bayer U.S., Crop Science based in Washington D.C., and new staffers are added to the House Agriculture Committee for both the Republican and Democratic staff.

Cindy McCain has been tapped as the next executive director of the United Nations World Food Program, taking the reins of the world’s largest humanitarian organization as millions of people are pushed into hunger from climate-related disaster and the war in Ukraine. 

Heather Hurlburt is the new chief of staff in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative Aaron Whitesel has become a partner at Green Capitol.

The American Sugar Alliance has elevated Robert Johansson to the new role of director of economics and policy analysis, and Katharine Emerson has returned to the World Food Program USA as its new chief of staff.

Spiro Stefanou has been selected to serve as the new administrator of USDA’s Economic Research Service and Paul Schlegel announced his retirement from the American Farm Bureau Federation.

The California Senate Rules Committee has confirmed the nomination of Val Dolcini as director of the Department of Pesticide Regulation and the Kraft Heinz Company has named three individuals to its U.S. leadership team.

Western Growers has hired De Ann Davis as senior vice president of science and the California Department of Food and Agriculture brings on Lina Nguyen as a senior environmental scientist specialist.

Christa Lachenmayr has been appointed the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s liaison to the Department of Agriculture and Swen Neufeldt has been named group vice president and president of Hormel Foods International Corp.