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Kathryn Van Waes

ONE
Policy Director
Kate (Russell) Van Waes is a Policy Director at ONE, leading the organization’s policy on global security and development, agricultural development, nutrition, energy poverty, education, women and girls, climate change, and trade and investment.  Kate was the lead author of ONE’s 2015 Poverty is Sexist Report, directed the 2016 global nutrition campaign, and led the 2015-2016 founding of the SDG2 Accountability Framework coalition (which is now being led by GODAN).  Before joining ONE, Kate was the Chief of Staff and Senior Policy Adviser in the US Secretary of State’s Office of Global Food Security.  She earned her Ph.D. from Brown University in 2004 and was, in her previous professional life, a NASA Mars mission scientist.

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