More than 35 years of experience in private and non-profit sectors
PhD in Nutrition Science from the Justus Liebig University in Germany
Active in the field of micronutrients to advance maternal and child nutrition
Serve on the board of MMS Technical Advisory Group, the Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Consortium Steering Committee, and the board of the German Association of Applied Vitamin Research
Adjunct faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Co-edited 13 books and published more than 180 scientific articles, including recent volumes on nutritional anemia and the biology of the first thousand days