John Coonrod
Executive Vice President
Business
Water For People
Australia
Biography
John Coonrod is the Executive Vice President of The Hunger Project, where he is responsible for research and advocacy. In addition to serving on the Water For People Board, John serves as co-chair of InterAction’s Food Security and Agriculture working group, as advisor and board member to a number of emerging international non-governmental organization, (NGOs). John grew up in the Midwest and was trained as a physicist at Stanford (BSc) and the University of California-Berkeley (MS, PhD). He worked as a research physicist at Princeton University from 1978 through 1984. He is an avid amateur photographer and figure skater and met his colleague and future wife Carol at The Hunger Project. They were married in 1988 and are living happily ever after in Washington, DC.
Research Interest
Agriculture working and Food Security
