During the week, I had the opportunity to speak with Michael Dunford (OR1986), Regional Director for the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) in East Africa. In 2020, the WFP was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, an international award of enormous stature, for its work in combatting hunger, in contributing to peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict. Michael’s work is on the edge: one among many of this current priorities in Kenya, where he lives with his young family, is to respond to the threat of civil war in neighbouring Ethiopia.