Meera Shekar was Global Lead for nutrition with the World Bank’s Health, Nutrition & Population Global Practice until 2024. In this role she managed key partnerships and positioned nutrition within the World Bank’s Human Capital Project. She repositioned the nutrition agenda that led to the new global Scaling-up Nutrition (SUN) movement and was a founding member of the Catalytic Financing Facility for Nutrition that evolved into the Power of Nutrition. She was Chair of the SUN executive committee, and was one of the principals for the aid-architecture for nutrition within the G8 and G20 agenda-setting process. She led the development of the first global Investment Framework for Nutrition and co-led (with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) the Nutrition Financing working group for the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) summit. She has a PhD in international nutrition, epidemiology and population studies from Cornell University, has consulted and published extensively, and has served on various advisory boards and panels, including the Essential Living Standards index, Legatum Institute, UK; and the advisory group at Gates Ventures.