Patrizia Fracassi

Patrizia Fracassi is a Senior Nutrition and Food Systems Officer at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) leading the work on governance, policies, programmes and investments. Previously, she was the Senior Nutrition Analyst and Strategy Adviser at the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Secretariat focusing on government-led multi-sectoral approaches for planning, costing, managing implementation, tracking investments and mobilizing resources. Patrizia has worked in Ethiopia with UNICEF on Nutrition Information Systems and for the World Bank on Linkages between the Productive Safety Net Programmes and the National Nutrition Programme. She also worked for UNICEF Uganda as a Nutrition Specialist and for CESVI and Oxfam Italia in Vietnam as Country Director, specializing in community-based nutrition, primary health care and livelihoods. Patrizia holds a Doctorate in Health Research, a M.Sc. in Development Management and an M.A. in Human Sciences. She is interested in the political economy of food and nutrition.