Lina Mahy works at the World Health Organization’s Department of Nutrition and Food Safety in Geneva where she facilitates advocacy, communication and partnerships around WHO’s nutrition and food safety strategies, guidance and tools with UN Agencies, professional communities, governments and intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations. For a year she was the Engagement Coordinator in the UN Food Systems Coordination Hub.
Lina was WHO’s focal point for the UN Food Systems Summit and was a member of the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition FAO/WHO Joint Secretariat. Prior to her current assignment, she worked as technical officer in the UN System Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN) Secretariat. Lina has lived and worked for 21 years in several countries in sub-Saharan Africa for FAO, UNICEF, Helen Keller International, and the World Bank.
Lina is an agricultural engineer (MSc), with a post-graduate degree in international nutrition and education from Ghent University (Belgium).