Serena Mithbaokar

Serena Mithbaokar is a food security and public policy specialist with over 15 years of experience working across humanitarian, development, and resilience contexts. She has held assignments in South Sudan, Chad, Laos, Armenia, Senegal, and Nigeria, supporting governments and partners to design, strengthen, and scale programmes and policies aimed at reducing food insecurity and malnutrition. Her expertise spans vulnerability analysis, social protection, targeting systems, and institutional capacity strengthening, with a particular focus on supporting governments to transition programmes towards greater national ownership and sustainability. Currently based in Geneva with the World Food Programme (WFP), Serena engages with Member States, multilateral organizations, UN agencies, and NGOs to advocate for food security within humanitarian policy discussions, while advancing collective approaches within ongoing humanitarian reforms.