David Nabarro

David Nabarro

Dr. David Nabarro (born in London on August 26, 1949), studied at Oxford and London Universities and qualified as a physician in 1973. Dr. Nabarro worked as the Senior UN System Coordinator for Avian and Human Influenza at United Nations Headquarters in New York. He has been seconded to this position from the World Health Organization.

In September 2005, Dr. Nabarro joined the office of the UN Secretary General as Senior Coordinator for Avian and Pandemic Influenza.

In January 2009 he was given the additional responsibility of coordinating the UN system’s High Level Task Force on the Global Food Security and was appointed, in October, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Food Security and Nutrition.

Since January 2010 he ha worked with the Scaling Up Nutriiton Movement and was appointed SUN Movement co-ordinator in January 2012.