Yuve Guluma

Yuve Guluma is a food systems strategist (humanitarian and resilience focus) with over 20 years of international experience designing, managing, and strengthening integrated programmes across humanitarian, transition, and development contexts. She has worked in West Africa, East and Central Africa, the Balkans, and South Asia, and has held technical and senior roles at both country and headquarters levels with the United Nations (ILO, UNDP, WFP, UNHCR, UNICEF) and international organisations including Action Contre la Faim, Save the Children, Terre des hommes, and IFRC.

Throughout her career, Yuve has built and stewarded multi-stakeholder collaboration with UN agencies, civil society, academia, social enterprises, and local actors – bringing a strong commitment to shifting power and resources closer to communities. She is known for translating research and foresight into practical, scalable solutions, using systems thinking and strategic innovation design to help teams navigate complex, interconnected drivers of vulnerability and food and nutrition insecurity.

Her work includes co-designing Senegal’s first decentralized early warning system to help avert food crises; developing the first milk value chain intervention in refugee camps globally; laying the foundation in Burkina Faso for UNHCR’s MADE51 global artisan brand; and launching IFRC’s first food security and livelihoods strategic innovation and dynamic portfolio initiatives in Southern Africa. 

Yuve holds an MSc in Social Policy, Planning and Participation in Developing Countries from the London School of Economics. Based in Geneva, she continues to explore the intersection of food systems futures, social innovation, and climate resilience.