# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ertharin-cousin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:05:25.073Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ertharin-cousin"
name: "Ertharin Cousin"
slug: "ertharin-cousin"
description: "Ertharin Cousin is an American lawyer who served as the twelfth executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme from 2012 to 2017. Following the completion of her term, Cousin became Payne Distinguished Professor at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, distinguished fellow at the Center on Food Security and the Environment and the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, accepted an appointment as a distinguished fellow with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and became a trustee on the UK based Power of Nutrition Board of Directors."
tagline: "12th Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1957-05-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump