Meet the Global Support Team

Marie-Hélène Kyprianou joined the global Food Security Cluster in August 2022. She has been working for the United Nations for the last 22 years, primarily with the UN World Food Programme accumulating diversified experiences. She has spent part of her career in the field, namely Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Kenya and Sudan, managing complex emergencies and portfolios. She has also served at WFP Headquarters in Rome and in WFP’s Geneva Global Office overseeing a number of partnerships. She has acquired diverse humanitarian experience in the areas of operational, emergency preparedness and response, project design and implementation, fundraising, external relations and advocacy. 

She has an MSc in Political Science from the University of Rome La Sapienza and an MSc in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. Recently as part of a mid-career break, she completed an Executive Master at the Graduate Institute of Geneva on International Negotiations and Policymaking.

Mr. Abdul Majid, a national of Pakistan, has joined global food security cluster as Global Coordinator food security cluster, effective 1 November 2021.  

Mr. Abdul Majid holds master’s degree in development from COMSATS university, Pakistan. He also holds Master of Business Administration degree from his studies in Pakistan. 

Mr. Abdul Majid has almost 15 years of experience in design, implementation and coordination of emergency responses in food security and livelihoods, resilience and climate-change adaptation sectors in the following countries: Pakistan, Philippines, Afghanistan, Syria and South Sudan. 

During last two years, he was based in FAO regional office Bangkok as regional coordinator IPC for Asia and NANE region. He supported food security analysis in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Yemen, Sudan and Ethiopia.  

Before this regional role, he remained associated with food security and agriculture cluster in South Sudan and Afghanistan for 6 years between 2014 to 2019 working with multiple partners to support/coordinate large-scale humanitarian responses.

Valerie has more than 20 years of experience in emergency and humanitarian response in Canada and at international level, mainly in the food security & livelihoods, WASH and protection sectors with the Canadian Red Cross, Oxfam Great Britain, and WFP in various contexts (conflicts, refugee/IDP, natural disaster – hurricane, floods, earthquake, and cholera outbreak), and countries (Bangladesh (Cox Bazar), Burkina Faso, Chad, DRC, Ethiopia, Haiti, Malawi, Mali, Pakistan, Philippines, South Sudan, and Uganda). 

Valerie supported the FSC in Chad as cluster co-lead for several years. She is fluent in French and English.

Damien holds a master in agronomy (Ecole Supérieure de Purpan, Toulouse, France).  He joined the gFSC team in Rome in March 2019. 

He has more than sixteen years of experience in humanitarian response in the field, mainly in the food security & livelihoods sectors with International NGOs (CARE, Action Against Hunger/ACF, Solidarites International, RedR UK, CAFOD, HelpAge International), and UN (FAO and WFP) in various contexts (conflicts, refugee/IDP, natural disaster – tsunami, floods, earthquake, waterlogging and cholera outbreak), and countries (Bangladesh, Indonesia, Niger, UK, Haiti, Myanmar, Guinea, Gambia, Serbia, Fiji).

He worked with the FSC in Bangladesh as the cluster coordinator from 2015 to 2018, at national level and in Cox’s Bazar.

Davide holds a Master degree in Social Sciences (Paris 8), and one in Political Science (Roma TRE), with a special focus on human rights & international relations. He has worked in the humanitarian sector since 2008, working for NGOs and UNs (WFP and FAO) mainly in the field of food security, livelihoods and nutrition. He has been deployed to various countries and crisis – both conflict and natural disasters related - in the middle east (oPt, Whole of Syria, Turkey), Cox’s Bazar (Rohingya emergency) and DPR Korea. He worked as Food Security Cluster coordinator from 2014 to 2018, and has joined the gFSC team in Rome in September 2019. He is fluent in English and French.

George is a national of Lebanon and holds a Master in International Cooperation in Urban Development (TU Darmstadt, Germany) and a Master in Sustainable Emergency Architecture (UIC Barcelona, Spain). George is the Data Analyst for the Global Food Security Cluster. He is passionate about bringing data to life by blending analysis, visual design, and storytelling to communicate complex humanitarian challenges in a clear and engaging way. Supporting global monitoring, reporting, and food security analysis, he helps country teams and partners turn evidence into action. His work focuses on ensuring data quality and integrity while developing innovative tools, dashboards, and methodologies that strengthen coordination, advocacy, and collective humanitarian response.

Citizen of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Wenceslas Ntumba have several years of experience in Information Management Systems, GIS, Naturals resources and Agricultures at National and International level.

Before joining the gFSC, he worked for 2 years as IMO for Food Security Cluster in Mali, in Bangladesh (Cox’s Bazar) to support humanitarian response to the Rohingya with IOM as IMO for the WASH cluster, at Logistics Cluster (WFP-DRC) as GIS Officer and Information & Knowledge Management (IMKM) between 2011-2017 and for WFP in the Philippines between 2013-2014 during response to Typhoon Haiyan.

Wenceslas has extensive knowledge of cluster coordination mechanisms, food security analysis, capacity building, data collection and GIS as to support better decision making.

He holds a master’s degree in Natural Disaster Management from University of Liège, Belgium and a degree in Agricultural Engineering (Soil and Water Management) from university of Kinshasa, DRC.

Gabriel is originally from Ecuador but moved to Rome, Italy in 1999. He completed a Bachelor's degree in foreign languages at La Sapienza University of Rome, and a Master’s degree in Interpreting and Translation at the University of International Studies in Rome. Prior to working at the Global Food Security Cluster team at the Office of Emergency and Resilience, from 2022 he worked at the Forestry division mainly in the Forest Dryland and Forest Health & Protection team, and from 2020 to 2021 at the Finance Division. He is passionate about foreign languages, geopolitics, and current affairs. In his spare time he enjoys training, do outdoors activities and watch football.

Rama Suleiman holds master’s degree in Business Administration and for the last 12 years has been working with both FAO and WFP mainly in Information Management, Vulnerability Assessments, Geographic Information Systems and Reporting. She worked both in the field in Syria, Jordan, and Turkey and managed operational information pertaining to crisis countries in the MENA and Latin America regions including Yemen and Ukraine. Her field and HQ experience enabled her to support global reporting on food security crises. Rama speaks Arabic, English, Italian and Spanish.

Angelina is a national of Ukraine with 8 years of experience in information management and socio-economic research. She holds a PhD degree in Economics obtained at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine). Before joining the gFSC team, she served as an Information Management and Data Visualization Officer with WFP Niger. She has also prior information management experience with Food Security Cluster and Gender-Based Violence Sub-Cluster in Ukraine and had been working as a researcher at institutions for sociological and economic studies. She has joined the gFSC team in August 2022. She speaks English, French, Ukrainian and Russian.

Herve holds a master degree in International Affairs and a Master in Humanitarian Programme Management from the Bioforce Institute. His experience in both, the private and the humanitarian sector, allowed him to develop strong skills in: assessment methodologies, information and knowledge management. Herve worked in several emergency contexts covering different roles, including reporting and communications in Haiti in 2018, IMO for the DRC food security cluster in 2020, and more recently as assessment officer for the cash and market working group in CAR.

He joined the global FSC support team in November 2021.