ClaudeForth

Writer and economist (Columbia U. grad) Since 2014: Senior Editor and Columnist at Impakter (5 million views/mo) an online magazine in English that she helped found. Earlier: 25-year UN career ending as FAO Director for Europe and Central Asia; delegate of the Order of Malta to the three United Nations agencies headquartered in Italy (FAO, WFP, IFAD).
On the writing side: non-fiction and fiction, including award-winning children’s book written in Italian (Le Avventure di Guendolina e Casimiro, Ellemme ed. Rome); contributed to the Freeze Frame: International Poetry Anthology published by Gallo Romano in 2012, Oscar Sparrow editor.
Multilingual: French, English, Spanish, and Italian with Latinx roots: Colombian grandmother, teen years spent in Bogotà, worked in Colombia, Mexico, etc. evaluating UN/FAO rural aid projects. Married and lives in Italy.