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Anthony Lake

Anthony Lake is the executive director of the United Nations Children’s Fund. He served as a senior foreign policy adviser to the presidential campaign of Barack Obama, a role he also performed during Bill Clinton's 1991 presidential campaign. Lake has managed a full range of foreign policy, national security, humanitarian and development issues at the most senior levels: as National Security Advisor under President Bill Clinton and as Director of Policy Planning in President Jimmy Carter’s administration. Contributor Photograph: UNICEF

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+World | January 31, 2012

The Global Crisis You’ve Never Heard Of: Stunting

By Anthony Lake
Rajanish Kakade / AP

Suppose I asked you to imagine a courtroom in which a stern judge peers with indifference at a baby — and off-handedly condemns the infant either to death or a life shorter than her peers, with poorer cognitive capacity, more likelihood of disease and less ability to learn at school and earn as an adult. [...]