Wolfgang Herbinger

Wolfgang Herbinger is the WFP Senior Advisor on Pandemic Supply Chain since November 2015. The Public-Private Initiative for a Supply Chain Network for Pandemic Preparedness and Response was initiated as follow-up to discussions at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 2015. The initiative presently includes UN agencies such as WHO, WFP and UNICEF, the World Bank, the University of Minnesota as well as private sector companies such as UPS, Henry Schein, Cardinal Health and NEC. From 2011 to 2015 he served as WFP Director of Logistics. Under his leadership 3,000 staff moved annually some three million tons of humanitarian cargo by land, sea and air. He was also responsible for the UN’s Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS), UN’s Humanitarian Response Depots (UNHRD) and leadership for the inter-agency Logistics Cluster. From 2008 to 2011 he was the WFP Country Director in Pakistan. During this period WFP assisted millions of vulnerable people affected by internal displacement crisis and the historical flood in 2010 that affected nearly 20 million people. He joined WFP as Associate Expert in 1985. Later assignments included work as Programme Officer, Policy Analyst, Food Security Adviser and Chief for Emergency Needs Assessments both in WFP’s Headquarters in Rome as well as in country and regional duty stations, i.e. Ethiopia and India. He studied economics in Germany and Austria, completing with a Masters Degree from the Free University in Berlin and an Advanced Degree in Rural Development from the Technical University in Berlin.