John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor was the second president of the Fourth Republic of Ghana and chairperson of the African Union. He has also championed efforts to end hunger, becoming a partner in 2008 in the World Food Programme’s Fill the Cup drive to provide nutritious school meals to millions of hungry children, and was a joint winner of the World Food Prize 2011. He is currently the chairman of the Sanitation and Water for All partnership and a special envoy for the Partnership on Neglected Tropical Diseases.