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After three bad hair days back in 1992, Catherine Bertini finally gave in. She leaned over the tub in her Rwanda hotel room--the one with shot-out windows and no running water--and allowed her husband to pour a bucket of dirty water over her head. Rough treatment for the CEO of a multinational with a $1.88 billion operating budget. But this multinational happens to be the U.N. World Food Program, and in her nine years as the agency's executive director, Bertini has grown used to hardships. "WFP reaches people who are at risk of starvation," she says...
...largest U.N. agency and the leading agency working against hunger, Bertini is responsible for both raising resources from donor countries and "making sure food gets to the right people at the right time and is accounted for." She is the first American and the first woman to head the WFP, now responsible for feeding nearly 90 million people each year, mostly in disaster zones like Ethiopia, Somalia and India...
...cargo capacity: 32 tons) are also to be allowed in. With this beefed-up air service, deliveries will soon reach 10,000 tons a month. That is better, but not close to the 15,000 tons required. "The only way to put an end to this," says Catherine Bertini, executive director of the World Food Program, "is to stop...
...weeds and grass to eat. Emergency food shipments from China, South Korea, Europe and the U.S. are being rushed in, but U.S. intelligence agencies warn that not enough will arrive in time to prevent tens of thousands from starving to death. North Korea, says World Food Program director Catherine Bertini, faces "a major humanitarian disaster...
Even the most technically oriented managers found that a lot of practice was required to master the machines. Robert J. Bertini Jr., a controller, took his home "so I could make my mistakes in private." After three weeks of self-training, Bertini now eagerly displays complicated financial projections and claims that his productivity has increased 10%. Stephen Melvin, president of an aircraft-engine manufacturing division, found the U.T. training sessions "humbling, like golf." But he asserts that the computer lets him dig deeper into his division's operations by giving him quick access to records and data...