World Food Prize Breakfast

Each year, the Downtown Chamber and West Side Chamber jointly host a breakfast featuring a speaker from the World Food Prize Borlaug Lecture Series*. This year, the featured speaker is Mr. Dan Silverstein presenting on, "The Role of the Private Sector in Addressing Food Security and Hunger." 

Daniel A. Silverstein is the Managing Member of Heuristic Management, LLC, a private sector and capital markets strategic advisory firm for agricultural and economic development in emerging and frontier states. He has served as a Senior Partnerships Advisor in the Bureau for Food Security at the U.S. Agency for International Development where he co-created USAID's Feed the Future Public-Private Partnership Opportunity Explorer.

He is an advisor to Motive International, and serves on the Advisory Council at The Hillwood Estate, Museum and Garden in Washington, DC. He also is a board member of Palms For Life Fund in New York City, and the Shine-A-Light Foundation in Ashland, OR. Before redirecting his professional interests to issues related to extreme poverty and hunger, Dan completed a career on Wall Street as an investment advisor, the last 10 years of which he was the Managing Director of The Investment Edge, LLC. He lives in Washington, DC.

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The World Food Prize

*The World Food Prize was created in 1986 by Nobel Peace Prize recipient Dr. Norman Borlaug. It is the foremost international award recognizing individuals whose achievements have advanced human development by increasing the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world. The World Food Prize also annually hosts the Norman Borlaug International Symposium, known as the "Borlaug Dialogue."

As we celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Dr. Norman E. Borlaug establishing the World Food Prize, our 2016 conference will convene a fantastic array of international leaders, policy makers, farmers, executives from agribusiness and non-governmental organizations, and scientific, academic and development experts to address the most critical issues facing global food security.

The title of 2016 Borlaug Dialogue "Let Food Be Thy Medicine," a quote attributed to Hippocrates approximately 2,400 years ago, best captures the ground-breaking achievement for which the 2016 World Food Prize laureates are being honored - the development and implementation of biofortification, breeding critical vitamins and micronutrients into staple crops, thereby dramatically reducing "hidden hunger" for millions.