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Who We Are

Our Team

The Global Partnership for Nutrition Initiative (GPNI) is powered by a multi-disciplinary team of global and local experts.

Our staff possesses deep technical mastery in child nutrition, evidence-based policy, and food reformulation. By integrating on-the-ground insights from local food systems with global strategic transformation, our team is uniquely equipped to deliver sustainable health and economic outcomes for children worldwide.

Executive Team

We drive GPNI towards our goal of improving the nutritional status of one billion people, especially women, adolescent girls and children, by 2030.

Adedotun Owolabi, PhD

Founder / CEO

Anita Bake

Head of Programmes

Oluwatoyin Ayodele

Lead, Policy and Regulatory

Shiksha Adhikari, PhD

Head of Research & Development

Caleb Agunbiade

Head of Market Insights and Private Sector Engagement

Board of Trustees

The GPNI Board of Trustees ensures rigorous oversight as we deliver on our institutional mandate to champion safe, healthy, and sustainable nutritional ecosystems for infants and young children worldwide

Barbara Rehbinder - Board Chair

Deputy Head of Scaling Up Nutrition Civil Society Network - Strategy & Advocacy, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr. Alida Melse-Boonstra

Associate Professor at Wageningen University, Division of Human Nutrition and Health - Global Nutrition

Dr. Kingsley Akinroye

Executive Director - Nigerian Heart Foundation. Executive Chairman, Osun State Hospital Management Board

Prof. Folake Samuel, PhD (Ib), FNSN, FPMA-UK

Professor (Community Nutrition), Department of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan

Prof. Uma Koirala

Professor & Researcher, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Dr. Jacqueline Patricia Landman

Visiting Lecturer at the University of Southampton

Mrs Bola Ojo, LL.M

Senior Consultant, Program Development & Fund Raising

Regional Staffs

Our regional staff drive GPNI towards our goal of improving the nutritional status of over 50 million people, especially women, adolescent girls and children, by 2035.

Oluwatoyin Ayodele

Country Manager, Nigeria

Aluko Tomilola

Research and Development Associate

Demilade Muyiwa

Senior Associate, Planning & Communications

Ruth Agbaje

Communications Associate

Peace Eghenure

Systems & Infrastructure Lead

Vivian Anoemuah

Policy and Advocacy Lead

Oluwabimisayo Omoremi

Research Scientist

Folakemi Ishola

Programme Associate

What We Do

We are an internationally recognized team of nutrition champions.

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