Ertharin Cousin

Ertharin Cousin (born 1957) is, since 2012, the twelfth Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme.
On June 9, 2009, Cousin was nominated by President Barack Obama to become United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture.
In November 2013 she was in "Time" magazine's list of "The 13 Gods of Food".
She was born in Chicago.