Jonathan Rivers

• Advised WFP operations throughout the LAC region, ensuring WFP assistance was well targeted, timely and impactful.
• Developed and managed regional Early Warning Systems, highlighting emerging risks in countries and providing actionable information for rapid response
• WFP's Regional Information Focal Point for food security and nutrition

• Developed and managed WFP's real-time global hunger monitoring system, HungerMapLIVE
• Transitioned from periodic, adhoc analyses to streaming analytics via the development of WFP's real-time food security monitoring system, across dozens of countries in crisis, cited in the years following as one of the largest efficiency gains in WFP
• Introduced machine learning and predictive analytics at scale for the first time in WFP

• WFP information lead in Cambodia
• Developed Platforms for Real-time Information Systems (PRISM), an operational real-time monitoring platform to facilitate commodity management and distribution processes for WFP's crisis response and school meals activities
• Partnered with the Ministry of Planning (MoP) and the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) to develop a more efficient, national emergency information system

Yangon, Myanmar | July 2011 - January 2014

Islamabad, Pakistan | October 2010 - May 2011

• Conducted large-scale assessments across Myanmar, providing first glimpse in decades of the well-being of the population
• Managed the assessments and analysis for the 2010 flood response in Pakistan

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | January 2010 - July 2010

Rome, Italy | December 2007 - May 2008

Bangkok, Thailand | October 2007 - November 2007

Rumbek, South Sudan | March 2007 - September 2007

Monrovia, Liberia | April 2006 - July 2006

• Conducted monitoring, assessments and analysis of the food security situation, providing guidance for WFP operations

• Responsible for establishing a Vulnerability, Analysis and Mapping capacity within WHO

Harare, Zimbabwe | August 2005 - February 2006

New Orleans, Louisiana | March 2004 - December 2004