Lawrence James Haddad CMG (born 17 June 1959),[1] is a British economist whose main research focuses on how to make food systems work better to advance the nutrition status of people globally.

[3] A development economist, Lawrence won subsequently a three-year fellowship to pursue his PhD at Stanford University's Food Research Institute,[4] which he completed in 1988.

[5] Prior to becoming the Executive Director of GAIN, Lawrence was the founding co-chair and lead author of the Global Nutrition Report (GNR) from 2014 to 2016.

GAIN is an international organisation launched at the United Nations in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition.

Announcing the award Ambassador Quinn, World Food Prize President cited the recipients for their "extraordinary intellectual and policy leadership in bringing maternal and child nutrition to the forefront of the global food security agenda and thereby significantly reducing childhood stunting" Most recently he was appointed by the UN Deputy Secretary General to lead nutrition work at the 2021 UN Food system Summit.