Lucy Martinez Sullivan

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Title: 
Executive Director
Phone: 
202-552-6549

Lucy Martinez Sullivan  is  Executive Director of 1,000 Days, a partnership that champions action and investment to improve nutrition during the critical 1,000 days between a woman’s pregnancy and her child’s 2nd birthday, as a way to achieve greater progress in global health and development.  The 1,000 Days Partnership was launched by the U.S. and Irish governments in 2010 to accelerate progress toward reducing malnutrition and support the global Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) movement. 

Prior to joining 1,000 Days, Lucy served as Executive Director at CCS, a philanthropic advisory firm, working with clients such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wildlife Conservation Society, and the UN Foundation.  Previously, Lucy worked in the private sector, where she managed multi-million dollar product portfolios for companies including Merrill Lynch, L’Oréal, and Limited Brands.

Lucy holds a Masters of Business Administration from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Arts with distinction from the University of Florida. She resides in Washington D.C. with her husband and baby daughter. 

 

 

 

Investing in Nutrition

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Submitted by Lucy Martinez Sullivan on Wed, 06/05/2013 - 5:58pm

“There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.  Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have,” said Winston Churchill in a radio broadcast to the British people during the height of the Second World War. Unfortunately, over 70 years later, too many nations remain afflicted with hunger and malnutrition, and too many children lack the basic nourishment they need for their brains and bodies to develop properly. 

Pulling Undernutrition From Its Roots

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Submitted by Lucy Martinez Sullivan on Wed, 11/16/2011 - 2:18pm
If we’re serious about ending poverty, then we have to get serious about improving nutrition. Nutrition is like the DNA of health and development. At an individual level, nutrition affects virtually every aspect of a human being’s physical and intellectual development. At a global level, how well (or poorly) people are nourished affects the overall health, prosperity and stability of communities and societies.