Anna Horner is a Public Health Nutritionist with more than 20 years of experience working in international nutrition within the UN system. She has worked primarily for WFP and UNICEF with a particular focus on the West Africa region. Anna has worked at the national level on nutrition in Niger, Guinea, and Mali (with shorter periods of work in Cote d'Ivoire, India, Pakistan, and Haiti) as well as for 10 years as the Regional Nutrition Advisor for the West Africa region for WFP. For the past 5 years, Anna has been heading up the Strategic Partnership Engagement for Nutrition team at WFP's HQ, leading engagement on all strategic partnerships, global events, and innovative financing opportunities from the nutrition side. During this time, she also led on strategic staffing for nutrition globally for WFP.

Anna holds a BA in Gender and French from Vassar College, an MA in International Studies and Diplomacy from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies, a Masters' degree in International Development and International Organisations from Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, and a MSc in Public Health Nutrition from the University of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. 

She is a US-UK-French citizen and mother of two young girls.