Dr Mahamat Béchir obtained his PhD in epidemiology and defended a thesis on nutrition in nomadic environments at the University of Basel in Switzerland. He has worked in the field of nutrition as Head of the National Center for Nutrition and Food Technology, as Nutrition Specialist at UNICEF Chad and REACH Facilitator in Guinea. He is currently SUN Chad Focal Point, Director of Nutrition and Food Technology and Nutrition Cycle Coordinator at the Faculty of Human Health Sciences of the University of N’Djamena Chad. He has contributed to the development of several national and international strategic and programmatic documents and has published some thirty scientific articles in the field of nutrition and food.