JosetteSheeran is the seventh President and CEO of Asia Society. She is responsible for advancing the organization’s work throughout the U.S. and Asia, in arts and culture, policy and business, and education. Sheeran is former vice chair of the World Economic Forum, known for its annual Davos and Davos in China. She helped advance global initiatives encompassing global, regional and industry agendas such as Grow Africa, which has attracted $4 billion to end hunger and malnutrition in Africa.Prior to the World Economic Forum, Sheeran was executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), appointed by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2006. She led the world’s largest humanitarian organization, with 13,000 employees in 70+ countries, and managed an annual budget of over $3 billion—including $1 billion in Asia. Under Sheeran’s leadership, the WFP increased its donor base to more than 100 nations, and became the first global institution to include the so-called BRIC countries and the Gulf States among its top 10 donors.As U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs, and deputy U.S. Trade Representative, Sheeran conducted high-level diplomacy with virtually every nation in Asia.JosetteSheeran is the seventh President and CEO of Asia Society. She is responsible for advancing the organization’s work throughout the U.S. and Asia, in arts and culture, policy and business, and education. Sheeran is former vice chair of the World Economic Forum, known for its annual Davos and Davos in China. She helped advance global initiatives encompassing global, regional and industry agendas such as Grow Africa, which has attracted $4 billion to end hunger and malnutrition in Africa.Prior to the World Economic Forum, Sheeran was executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), appointed by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2006. She led the world’s largest humanitarian organization, with 13,000 employees in 70+ countries, and managed an annual budget of over $3 billion—including $1 billion in Asia. Under Sheeran’s leadership, the WFP increased its donor base to more than 100 nations, and became the first global institution to include the so-called BRIC countries and the Gulf States among its top 10 donors.As U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs, and deputy U.S. Trade Representative, Sheeran conducted high-level diplomacy with virtually every nation in Asia.In 2011, Forbes named her the world’s 30th most powerful woman; Foreign Policy listed her among its top 100 women on Twitter; and Sheeran’s TED Talk on ending world hunger has been viewed more than one million times. She was recently a Fisher Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.Sheeran is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations. She was awarded Japan's Nigata International Food Award, Commandeur de l'Ordre du MériteAgricole by the government of France, and Brazil`s highest civilian award, the Grand Official Order of the `Rio Branco,’ from President Lula Da Silva, and the “Game Changer” award by the Huffington Post.