Thursday, November 4ht
8 a.m PST| 11 a.m EST
Offered by Will Work For Food and moderated by Jeff Kichaven (www.JeffKichaven.com ) and Jean Lawler (www.LawlerADR.com)
This worldwide conversation will be like nothing else. Join in! Share, learn, have fun.
Please consider donating to Mr. Stayton’s preferred charity, World Food Programme USA.
Our Special guest this week, Michael Stayton, Retired, Former Chief of Staff, United Nations World Food Programme, will be presenting on:
The Role of WFP in Conflicts Past and Present
Giving life to the importance of Will Work for Food, Michael Stayton, former Chief of Staff to the United Nations World Food Programme, will introduce to us the relationship between conflict and hunger. He will discuss the effects of current political crises on hunger and how the World Food Programme helps to supply aid to starving people in these most difficult places. This program gives a backstage look at the US role in world affairs both past and present. The World Food Programme was the 2020 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for its work in mitigating conflict around the world. Posted next to that prize in their headquarters in Rome, are the words, “We believe food is a pathway to peace.” We believe mediation is a pathway to peace. Please join us for this eye-opening look at the world and our role in it.
MICHAEL B. STAYTON recently retired as Chairman of United States Infrastructure Corporation (USIC) where he was a founding shareholder and President and CEO from 2008 - 2014. Mr. Stayton currently serves on a number of Boards, both for-profit and not-for-profit.
From 2002-2007, he served as Chief of Staff for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the largest international humanitarian agency in the world. WFP operates one of the largest logistics businesses in the world and is recognized by the international community as the world’s leader in emergency response capacity. The most notable emergency response programs implemented were in Afghanistan and Iraq after the Taliban and Hussein regimes fell, the Indian Ocean tsunami, civil war in Sudan including Darfur, the Kashmir earthquake, and numerous droughts and civil conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa, and humanitarian crises in the Middle East & North Korea.