Lina Mahy has worked in the Department of Nutrition and Food Safety at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva since 2015. She is a member of the Food Systems Unit. She facilitates advocacy, communication, and partnerships on WHO’s nutrition and food safety strategies, guidance, and tools with UN Agencies, professional communities, governments, and intergovernmental organizations with the aim of increasing impact at country level.

Mahy was WHO’s focal point for the UN Food Systems Summit and is a member of the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition FAO/WHO Joint Secretariat. She is interested in governance, sustainable food systems, biodiversity, and climate change linked to nutrition. Prior to her current assignment, she worked as technical officer in the UN System Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN) Secretariat. Mahy has lived and worked for 21 years in several countries in sub-Saharan Africa for FAO, UNICEF, Helen Keller International, and the World Bank. Mahy is an agricultural engineer (MSc), with a post-graduate degree in international nutrition and education from Ghent University (Belgium).