Bruce Cogill

Title: Programme Leader, Nutrition and Marketing of Diversity

Duty post: Bioversity International HQ, Rome, Italy

Bruce Cogill is the programme leader, Nutrition and Marketing of Diversity, based at Bioversity International HQ, Rome.  He has an extensive experience in management, food and nutrition policy, research, programs and practice.  He holds a Ph.D. and Master’s degrees from Cornell University in the U.S.A. where he studied International Nutrition and Agricultural Economics and an undergraduate degree from Australia in Food Science and Technology. 

Bruce has also consulted on food and nutrition for the World Bank, UN, universities and others. Previous appointments include Chief of Nutrition at USAID Washington where he championed the nutrition effort for the Feed the Future and the Global Health Initiative.  He was coordinator for the IASC Global Nutrition Cluster at UNICEF where he coordinated over 37 NGOs, academic, UN and technical agencies in the food and nutrition preparedness and response to emergencies.  In addition, he spearheaded the successful FANTA and A2Z projects and USAID’s efforts in research and programming for nutrition and food security, HIV, micronutrients and in the community management of severe and moderate acute malnutrition.

Bruce has contributed to strategy developments for large donors and served on technical committees and recently was on the Board of the Micronutrient Initiative, GAIN Alliance, and the Chair of the Steering Committee for the Health and Nutrition Tracking Service at WHO. 

He has lived and worked in several countries including Mozambique, Kenya, and Papua New Guinea. He has published extensively ranging from practical guides and reviews to articles in peer reviewed journals including one of the most popular guides on anthropometry.  He has appeared on television news programs and in print as an authority on international nutrition.

Credentials

B.Ap.Sc, Food Science and Technology, University of Queensland, Australia
MS, PhD, International Nutrition Agricultural Economics, Cornell University, USA

Languages:

English