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Patrick Webb is Dean for Academic Affairs of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.[ ] He is also Alexander MacFarlane Professor of Public Policy at the Friedman School, and hold appointments at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University [ ], and Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, Germany.[ ] Webb was previously Chief of Nutrition for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) from 2003 to 2005 [ ], and a Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute from 1989 through 1994.[ ] With Eileen Kennedy [ ], Webb manages the only self-governing graduate school of nutrition in the United States [ ]. Webb, a British citizen, holds an undergraduate degree in geography from Sussex University [ ], a master’s degree from the Centre for West Africa Studies at the University of Birmingham [ ], and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in geography from the University of Birmingham.[ ] He attended the Wells Blue School in Somerset from 1971 to 1979.[ ] Webb is considered to be one of the world’s most influential voices in the field of international nutrition [ ], particularly as it relates to the domain of humanitarian intervention [ ]. He led the United States Agency for International Development’s review of food aid quality from 2009 to 2011[ ], served on the United Nations’ Hunger Task Force from 2003 through 2005 [ ], and is the Program Director for the Global nutrition Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP), 2010-2015.[ ] Webb is a member of the Board of the Nevin Scrimshaw International Nutrition Foundation [ ], member of the editorial advisory board of the Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture [ ], and of the editorial board of Food Security [ ]. Webb has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed journal articles, books and book chapters. [ ]. His’s book from 1994 on Famine and Food Security in Ethiopia: Lessons for Africa [ ]. Chichester: John Wiley, co-authored with Joachim von Braun [ ], was reviewed in the New Scientist [ ] under the title, “A hard row to hoe” by Michael Cross on September 24, 1994. The reviewer wrote that “not many academic books can move a reviewer to tears. This one did.”

Webb’s subsequent book from1999 on Famine in Africa: Causes, Responses and Prevention. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press [ ] was reviewed as “among the best of primers on current knowledge on famine prevention, market integration and malfunction, and household food security“ by the Humanitarian Times, Feb 17, 1999.[ ]

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