Abigail (Abi) joined the World Bank as Global Program Lead for Nutrition in January 2025. Prior to joining the World Bank, she was Director of Nutrition at the World Food Programme since August 2021, providing strategic oversight of WFP’s contribution to addressing malnutrition and leading the development of WFP’s 2025-2030 strategy to address malnutrition and improve diets. Abi has been the UN representative on the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement Executive Committee since 2021 and a member of the UN Nutrition Steering Committee. Prior to joining WFP, Abi was Head of the Nutrition Policy team at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (formerly the UK Department for International Development). In this role, Abi provided strategic leadership of the UK government’s work on nutrition, working closely with other donors, philanthropic foundations, and government actors, including in support of the Nutrition for Growth Summits in Brazil and Tokyo. Abi led the design of the UK’s 2017 nutrition position paper and ensured the UK delivered the commitments to nutrition made at the 2013 Nutrition for Growth Summit. Prior to joining DFID in 2011, Abi worked as a nutrition specialist with Save the Children and Action Against Hunger in a range of humanitarian and development nutrition roles in Africa and Asia. She also led research and capacity development initiatives on nutrition at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and University College London. Abi has an MSc in Public Health Nutrition.