Ertharin Cousin is the Managing Director and CEO of FSF Ventures and the CEO of Food Systems for the Future Institute.
She is a Distinguished Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. From 2012 to 2017, she led the UN World Food Programme, providing food assistance to over 80 million people annually. Cousin served as the U.S. Ambassador to the UN Agencies for Food and Agriculture from 2009 to 2012. She has held leadership roles at Feeding America and in corporate retail.
Cousin is on several boards and has been recognized on multiple influential lists.