Greg Barrow is WFP's Global Media Coordinator, based at headquarters in Rome. He moved to Rome in 2008 from London, where he headed up WFP's Liaison Office for the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland for almost 5 years.
Before joining WFP, Greg Barrow worked for 14 years as a television and radio journalist for the BBC. He spent a six-year stint reporting from sub-Saharan Africa, based first in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and then in Johannesburg in South Africa, covering mainly conflict and humanitarian disaster stories. He than spent three years in New York as the BBC United Nations Correspondent and reported on the 9/11 attacks.
We could use it right now to feed 8.6 million hungry mouths in Ethiopia through to the end of the year. These are people whose crops have withered due to drought and who can't buy the food they want at...
Posted June 12, 2009 | 01:34 PM (EST)