Terry Njeri Theuri

Terry Njeri Theuri is a Senior Nutrition and Food Security Officer at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She is currently responsible for Nutrition Programmes within the Public Health and Nutrition Section, Operational Support Services, Division of Resilience and Solutions at Global headquarters level in Geneva, Switzerland since January 2021. Prior to taking up this role, she was supporting nutrition in various UNHCR refugee field operations since 2011. Before this, she worked in the nutrition field with other organisations including UNICEF, MSF-Holland, IRC and GOAL from 2005 to 2010. She has 17+ years of experience in public health, nutrition, and food security in terms of policy and programme planning, design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, reporting, and documenting lessons learnt. This has been in emergency and development settings, at country and field levels, working with the UN, governments, and NGOs. She holds a Master’s in International Development from the University of Manchester- Institute of Development Policy and Management in the UK and a Bachelor of Science in Food Nutrition and Dietetics from Egerton University in Kenya.