Jordan Dey
Director of US Relations - UN World Food Program
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Jordan Dey is the Director of the US Relations Office for the UN World Food Program. WFP is the world’s largest humanitarian agency: each year feeding an average of 90 million poor people, including 56 million hungry children, in 80 of the world’s poorest countries.
During his tenure with WFP, Jordan has served in a Colombia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Panama, Sri Lanka, Washington, New York, and in WFP’s Rome headquarters. He is a frequent media commentator, having appeared as a guest on CNN, BBC, C-Span, Fox News, National Public Radio and in the pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, and other publications.
Prior to joining WFP in 2001, Jordan worked in the State Department as an advisor to Richard Holbrooke, the US Ambassador to the United Nations. Mr. Dey has also worked with NGOs and international organizations in Romania, Bosnia, Kosovo and Albania.
Jordan Dey is a national of the United States, and he holds a bachelors degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He holds a Master’s Degree from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard.
