Josette Sheeran

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Josette Sheeran (2007)

Josette Sheeran (* 1954 ) is a former US director of the World Food Program (WFP - UN World Food Program).

Life

Josette Sheeran graduated from the University of Colorado in 1976 . As a result, she worked as a journalist for various media owned by the Unification Church and finally for the Washington Times . In the course of time she assumed responsibility for the management there and, due to her journalistic reputation, was twice appointed to a jury for the renowned Pulitzer Prize : in 1996 as a member of the Prize Committee for Journalism Abroad and in 1997 as Chair of the Prize Committee for Cartoons. In 1992 she was the first (and ultimately only) US journalist who was able to lead with Kim Il-sung . Towards the end of her time as a journalist, she was named one of the 100 Most Influential Women in Washington by one of the media.

She then worked in the private sector, primarily as managing director of Starpoint Solutions. Then she switched to politics. So it was before her appointment as Executive Director of WFP as Secretary of State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs ( Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs ) in the United States Department of State operates.

Between 2006 and 2012 she was the eleventh Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Program (WFP - UN World Food Program). It thus leads the largest humanitarian organization in the world. During her term of office, the 2008 world food crisis and emergency aid after the earthquake in Haiti in spring 2010, arguably the greatest challenges since the WFP was founded. In her most important campaign to contain the world food crisis, Sheeran coined the phrase in early 2008 that the world food crisis was a "silent tsunami". In 2011, Forbes magazine ranked her 30th on the “Power Women” list.

She has been the UN special envoy for Haiti since 2017 .

Private

Josette Sheeran has three children. When she was named "Power Women 2011" by Forbes , she was divorced and lived in Rome.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Elisabeth Rosenthal: A Desire to Feed the World and Inspire Self-Sufficiency. In: nytimes.com. August 11, 2007, accessed November 17, 2018 .
  2. ^ WTO - Panel on Defining the Future of Trade - Biograhy - Josette SHEERAN. In: wto.org. Retrieved November 17, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Ms. Josette Sheeran of the United States - Special Envoy for Haiti | United Nations Secretary-General. Retrieved August 20, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Silent Tsunami on BBC.co (accessed March 26, 2010)
  5. ↑ a b # 30 Josette Sheeran. In: forbes.com. Retrieved November 17, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Americas | United Nations Secretary-General. Retrieved August 20, 2017 .

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SURNAME Sheeran, Josette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist, UN special envoy for Haiti
DATE OF BIRTH 1954