President Biden is working to elevate Cindy McCain, the current U.S. ambassador to the World Food Program, to serve as executive director of the Rome-based United Nations agency, according to people familiar with the matter.
Why it matters: With Russia's war in Ukraine disrupting the food supply and drought affecting the Horn of Africa, the WFP will need a dynamic leader to raise billions of dollars — and then figure out how to deliver it in hostile territory.
