Jan Low

Jan Low (born 1955[1]) is an American food scientist.

She is known for her work helping develop the biofortified orange-fleshed sweet potato at the CGIAR International Potato Center, for which she was a co-recipient of the 2016 World Food Prize[2] alongside Maria Andrade, Robert Mwanga, and Howarth Bouis.

[1] She attended Pomona College and spent four years in Zaire with the Peace Corps before earning a doctorate in agricultural economics at Cornell University in 1994.

[2][1] After Cornell, Low began working at the Nairobi office of the CGIAR International Potato Center, a research center based in Lima, Peru.

[1] She helped develop the biofortified orange-fleshed sweet potato, which contains more vitamin A than the dominant variant, and can therefore be used to help alleviate the vitamin A deficiency common among children in the region.