Jane Pearce
Ms. Pearce is the Country Director ad interim of WFP Nepal, leading a diverse programme portfolio comprising of both humanitarian and development projects. Ms. Pearce has over 25 years of operational and leadership experience with WFP, having held a variety of policy and programme positions including field assignments in Zaire, Rwanda, Tanzania, DPR Korea and Iraq. She was the Country Director a.i. of Liberia in 2001, and Representative and Country Director of Iraq from 2014 to 2016. Ms. Pearce has extensive experience of working during emergencies, being deployed to the Great Lakes Emergency during the Rwanda genocide, to support operations in Macedonia, to the Special Envoy’s office in Pakistan covering the post-9/11 Afghan operations, the 2003 Iraq war, the Indian Ocean tsunami and the Pakistan earthquake. Most recently, Ms. Pearce was Director of Performance Management, Monitoring and Reporting in WFP’s Rome headquarters. Ms. Pearce studied at Monash University, Oxford University and the School of Oriental and Africa Studies. She speaks Italian and French.