Sonja Read is a public health nutritionist focused on low- and middle income countries. Her initial research focused on acute malnutrition among infants under 6 months but she has since worked for several international NGOs in programme management and operational research mainly in the areas of nutrition and food security, cash-based assistance and economic development to support programme development, assessments and evaluations. With a bachelor degree in business management, her passion is to help development programmes be more impactful, sustainable and evidence-based. Sonja holds an MSc in public health nutrition from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.