Professor Donald Bundy is the Director of the Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition of the global School Meals Coalition, one of the most successful multilateral institutions arising from the COVID-19 Pandemic. Supported by 1,300 experts, the Consortium provides evidence-based guidance to 113 member countries worldwide, feeding more than 466 million children daily.
Donald has supported the health of schoolchildren for more than 40 years. He is currently Professor of Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Senior Advisor to the UN World Food Programme, and Fellow of the Center for Global Development and Linacre College, Oxford.
Previously, he was: Senior Advisor to the Global Health Team of the Bill Gates Foundation (Seattle); Lead Education and Health Specialist to the World Bank (Washington D.C.); and Professor in the Epidemiology Centre, University of Oxford (Oxford, UK). He founded the Partnership for Child Development in 1992, and co-created the FRESH Framework at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal in 2000.
He has authored 450 books and scientific publications, and produced award-winning documentaries, including a broadcast series for PBS. He has contributed to the World Bank’s Disease Control Priorities since 1993, and the UN World Food Programme’s State of School Feeding Worldwide since 2013.