World Food Prize Laureate Announcement Ceremony To Be Held On May 5

Last year, Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted won the World Food Prize Laureate for her influential work on nutrition, fish, and aquatic food systems.

The Ceremony will be held on Thursday (Image: Youtube screengrab)

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New Delhi: This year’s World Food Prize Laureate will be announced at the 2022 World Food Prize Laureate Announcement Ceremony. The Ceremony will be held on Thursday, May 5, at 9:30 am in the Benjamin Franklin Room of the US Department of State.  

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will make the opening remarks and the President of the World Food Prize Foundation, Barbara Stinson, will announce the name of the Laureate for this year. US Secretary of Agriculture Thomas J. Vilsack, Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Jose W. Fernandez, and Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs Ramin Toloui will also give remarks.  

This event marks the 36th Anniversary of the establishment of the World Food Prize.

The Secretary’s remarks will be open to the press and live-streamed on www.state.gov and www.youtube.com/statedept .

Pre-set time for video cameras 

8:30 a.m. from the 23^rd Street entrance.

Final access time for writers and stills 

9:00 a.m. from the 23^rdStreet entrance.

Media representatives may attend this event upon presentation of one of the following:

• A US Government-issued identification card (Department of State, White House, Congress, Department of Defense or Foreign Press Center)
• A media-issued photo identification card
• A letter from their employer on letterhead verifying their employment as a journalist, accompanied by an official photo identification card (driver’s license, passport).

Last year, Dr. Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted won the World Food Prize Laureate for her influential work on nutrition, fish, and aquatic food systems.

Dr Thilsted is the first woman of Asian heritage to be awarded the World Food Prize. 

She was the first to examine the nutritional composition of small native fish species commonly found and consumed in Bangladesh and Cambodia. Her research demonstrated that the high levels of multiple essential micronutrients and fatty acids in these affordable and locally available foods offered life-changing benefits for children's cognitive development in their first 1000 days of life and the nutrition and health of their mothers.