Luke J. Lindberg took office on Monday as executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Rome and called on donors, partners and supporters to help sustain the agency's work.
"Conflict is driving people into hunger, and extreme weather and maritime chokepoints exacerbate this reality," Lindberg said. "Governments, institutions, businesses, and individuals need to stand with us, fund the work, and help get food to people before it's too late. No more famines."
As many as 266 million people faced acute hunger worldwide last year, with conflict driving the most severe crises, according to WFP, whose teams now work in 83 countries.
Lindberg succeeds Cindy McCain, executive director from April 2023 to May 2026, and Carl Skau, who has been acting executive director since June. Before joining WFP he was Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs at the United States Department of Agriculture. He earlier founded South Dakota Trade, a public-private partnership to expand international markets for the state's exporters, and served as chief of staff and chief strategy officer at the Export-Import Bank of the United States.
Photo: US Embassy San Salvador (Luke Lindberg as USDA Under Secretary, March 2026) / Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
Source: WFP
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