Amer Daoudi

The Senior Director of Operations, Amer Daoudi, was appointed by WFP’s Executive Director as
the Corporate Response Director (CRD) for COVID–19. In this capacity, he is responsible for operational
management and ensuring first-line support to the Regional Directors, including mobilizing
support from across the organization as needed. He is also responsible for managing relationships
with external partners working on the COVID-19 response, including governments, other
UN agencies and the private sector.

Amer Daoudi assumed his duties as Senior Director of Operations at the World Food Programme
in January 2018. In this role, where he oversees the Logistics/Supply Chain and Emergency Preparedness
and Response divisions, Mr. Daoudi is drawing on 30 years of experience in leading
and managing complex humanitarian operations.

Most recently, Mr. Daoudi served as the Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Yemen Crisis,
in charge of coordinating and facilitating the delivery of humanitarian supplies into Yemen,
overseeing operations from Djibouti, Riyadh, Amman, and Sana’a. Prior to that, Mr. Daoudi
served as the Director of Operations Support for the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response,
the first mission of its kind. He coordinated the enabling activities of the response in West Africa
beginning with the design of a comprehensive operations framework for the Ebola response.

Mr. Daoudi’s prior 20 years of service with WFP includes highly effective leadership and management
positions; he was Regional Director in Sudan from 2009-2012, WFP’s largest operation at
the time, covering Sudan and South Sudan, and Director of Logistics and Procurement in HQ,
among others. He was also instrumental in positioning WFP as the lead of the Global Logistics
Cluster, and led the WFP response to some of the most complex emergencies such as Afghanistan,
Iraq and Lebanon.Prior to joining WFP, Mr. Daoudi spent a decade in private sector shipping. Mr. Daoudi, a Jordanian national, holds an MBA from Georgetown University.

LINK to Mr. Daoudi’s Keynote Speech on November 19, 2020