Nancy Stetson

Stetson graduated with a baccalaureate degree in political science from Wellesley College, and she earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University in political science. For more than 25 years she served on the staff of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations as well as in the role of Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to then-Senator John Kerry.{{cite web |url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/228460.htm |title=Biographies of Senior Staff |publisher=United States Department of State |date=2014-06-23 |accessdate=2016-07-05}} In these roles, she contributed to the South Africa sanctions bill, normalization of relations between the United States and Vietnam, and funding for HIV/AIDS relief.{{cite web |url=http://capitolwords.org/date/2007/01/17/S641-2_tribute-to-nancy-stetson/ |title=Tribute To Nancy Stetson |publisher=Sunlight Foundation |date=2007-01-17 |accessdate=2016-07-05}}

In her role as the United States Special Representative for Global Food Security, Stetson emphasized the importance of partnerships to address malnutrition,{{cite web |url=http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/260093/icode/ |title=Partnerships are crucial to fighting malnutrition |publisher=United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization |date=2014-10-15 |accessdate=2016-07-05}} addressing food security through Feed the Future is a moral imperative,{{cite web |url=https://croplife.org/news/food-security-a-moral-imperative-president-obama/ |title=Food Security a "Moral Imperative" – President Obama |publisher=CropLife International |date=2015-09-08 |accessdate=2016-07-05}} and addressing food security requires a recognition of a balance among disaster-response operations and longer-term humanitarian assistance operations.{{cite web |url=https://www.newamerica.org/resource-security/natural-security/food-security-poses-multiple-challenges-say-experts/ |title=Food Security Poses Governance, Management, and Military Challenges Say Experts |publisher=New America |date=2016-06-22 |accessdate=2016-07-05}}

File:Kerry and Stetson pose with staff at Milan Expo October 2015.jpg]]Stetson headed the U.S. Delegation to the 41st session of the Committee on World Food Security{{cite web |url=http://usunrome.usmission.gov/news/global-food-security.html |title=U.S. Special Representative for Global Food Security leads Dialogue on Nutrition at the FAO |publisher=United States Mission to the UN Agencies in Rome |date=2014-10-20 |accessdate=2016-07-05}} and the 42nd session of the Committee on World Food Security where she introduced the Caribbean Ocean Assets Sustainability faciliTy (COAST).{{cite web |url=http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/cfs/Docs1415/cfs42/Summary/CFS42_Side_Events_Abstracts_and_Summaries.pdf |title=CFS Side Event Abstracts and Summaries |publisher=United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization |date=2015-10-12 |accessdate=2016-07-05}}

She was part of Secretary Kerry's delegation to the USA Pavilion at the Expo 2015.{{cite web |url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2015/10/248115.htm |title=Special Representative for Global Food Security, Dr. Nancy Stetson Travel to Rome and Milan, Italy |publisher=United States Department of State |date=2014-10-20 |accessdate=2015-10-13}}

Stetson was deputy head of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Habitat III conference on housing and sustainable urbanization in October, 2016.{{cite web |url=http://citiscope.org/habitatIII/news/2016/05/what-have-we-learned-habitat-iii-policy-units-part-i |title=What have we learned from the Habitat III policy units? (Part I) |publisher=CitiScope |date=2016-05-06 |accessdate=2016-07-05}}

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• [https://2009-2017.state.gov/s/globalfoodsecurity/ Office of Global Food Security]
• {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150720084206/http://www.unscn.org/files/Publications/SCN_News/SCNNEWS41_web_low_res.pdf 2015: The year of opportunity for nutrition. UN Standing Committee on Nutrition News]}}
• [http://www.fao.org/webcast/home/fr/item/1508/icode/ Dialogues on Nutrition. Communication to Inspire Change: US. UN FAO]
• [https://www.americanprogress.org/events/2015/11/13/125533/a-transatlantic-policy-conversation-on-global-food-security/ A Transatlantic Policy Conversation on Global Food Security. Center for American Progress]
• [https://www.americanprogress.org/events/2016/06/13/139311/the-national-security-implications-of-climate-change-and-food-security/ The National Security Implications of Climate Change and Food Security. Center for American Progress]

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