Nitya RaoNitya Rao is Professor of Gender and Development at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom and Director of the Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development. Her areas of interest are women's rights and gender justice, with a particulr focus on food, nutrition, health and livelihood security. She has worked with indigenous populations, confronting both climatic variability and economic precarity, to explore gendered changes in their lives, livelihoods, and wellbeing. She served on the Global Advisory Committee of the United Nations Girls Education Initiative for over a decade. She is currently a member of the Steering Group of the High-Level Panel of Experts to the Committee on World Food Security, Commissioner, EAT-Lancet 2.0 on healthy and sustainable diets and member of the Scientific Advisory Group to the UN Food Systems Coordination Hub. Read More Read Less