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Tara Shyam is a specialist in complex, global multistakeholder food systems partnerships, with diverse expertise spanning agriculture, nutrition, school meals, and food loss & waste. Tara is adept at shared-value stakeholder engagement across government, business, non-profit organizations, multilateral agencies, civil society, and academia, ranging from high-level leadership to on-the-ground operations. She has worked for the UN World Food Programme, two CGIAR Institutes, the Global Nutrition Report, The Global FoodBanking Network, and UNICEF, among others.