The Magic of Names | Marina Catena | TEDxLUISS

“Most of the times, there is a fascinating story behind a name”. By sharing her incredible personal story both as a UN peacekeeper and an Italian soldier, as well the Director of World Food Programme in Paris, Marina Catena explains that names possess a fascinating power that can inspire and guide a person’s future choices and events, as they did in her life.

Marina Catena is the Director of the United Nations World Food Programme in Paris. After studying Political sciences at LUISS University and being a pioneer ERASMUS student, she started an international career on the frontlines of several modern conflicts serving in war-thorn Kosovo and in Iraq. She then became Lieutenant of the Italian Army (Specialized Reserve) and served in Lebanon as UN blue helmet for the UNIFIL peace keeping operation. She is the author of several books capturing the role of women as an asset to create peace such as “Una donna per soldato” (RIZZOLI). She is also the initiator of the awareness campaign “805 million names” with football champion Zlatan Ibrahimovic and ad agency Forsman & Bodenfors on the World Food Programme’s critical role in fighting against hunger all over the world. In 2009, France awarded her the Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Merite.

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