Director of WFP Center of Excellence against Hunger confirmed as speaker at the 6th Brazil Africa Forum
Daniel Balaban, director of WFP Center of Excellence against Hunger, will speak at the 6th Brazil Africa Forum: Youth Empowerment – transformation to achieve sustainable development. Daniel Balaban is Economist, MBA in Finance, Specialist in Public Budget and Master in International Relations. Since August 2011 he is the Director of the World Food Program Centre of Excellence against Hunger. The Centre was launched jointly by the World Food Programme and Brazil government in 2011 as a powerhouse of solutions for the defeat of hunger and malnutrition. A South-South bridge to food security, the Centre draws on Brazilian experience to share knowledge and policy innovations among developing countries. Primarily focused on linking school meal systems to local agriculture, it provides technical assistance to national governments to design, improve, expand, and eventually run their own school feeding programmes.
In Brazil Balaban acted for over ten years in the areas of finance and planning in business consulting firms and foundations of welfare facilities. In 1994 he became Finance Analyst of Brazil’s Ministry of Finance, having served as Economic Adviser to the Secretary of the Treasury and National Coordinator for Economic Studies of the Secretariat of National Treasury. In 2003 he served as Special Adviser to the Secretary of the Economic and Social Development of the Brazil’s Presidency of the Republic.
Mr. Balaban in 4th Brazil Africa Forum (Foz do Iguaçu, 2016)
From March 2006 to August 2011 he was President of the Brazilian National Education Development Fund, responsible, among other actions, for the National School Feeding Program, that feeds more than 47 million students around the Country. He acted in the creation of Brazilian School Feeding Law that determines that at least 30% of the food purchased must come from the small family farming production.
Daniel Balaban chairs the school feeding network for Latin America. He is a Board Member of the Global Child Nutrition Foundation and member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Councils. Balaban has been instrumental in supporting south-south cooperation and partnership in collaboration with the World Food Programme to bring support to national governments in several countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
