Deepika Anand is the Operations Officer with the Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice at the World Bank, currently based in New Delhi, India. PhD by qualification, she has over 10 years of work experience in the development sector, particularly on issues related to nutrition (covering over and under nutrition, fortification), food systems and its linkages with obesity, early childhood development and health systems strengthening. She has numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals and has co-authored several HNP discussion papers and World Bank reports.