Peiman Milani is a Director of the Food Initiative at The Rockefeller Foundation in Africa with focus on food systems, school meals, and whole grains and blends. He has led multidisciplinary projects in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. He has also advised the World Food Programme on its food systems strategy in East Africa. Previously, he was the global lead for public-private partnerships and Rwanda country lead for Sight and Life Foundation. Prior to that, he was the director of Nutrition Innovation at PATH, where he led a global multidisciplinary team dedicated to addressing malnutrition through novel approaches. Through his leadership, fortified rice became PATH’s first consumer product to break the 3-million consumer mark and gained scale-up momentum in Asia. His work has resulted in publications in Global Food Security, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Frontiers in Microbiology, and other peer-reviewed journals. A Fulbright Scholar, Peiman holds an MSc from Arizona State University and an MBA from Duke University, and currently resides in Nairobi.