Marian Yun is a South Korean national currently serving as the Director of the World Food Programme (WFP) Seoul Global Office since July 2021”. Prior to this position, Marian served as the Deputy Country Director of WFP in the Kingdom of Lesotho. She first joined WFP as a South Korean Junior Professional Officer (JPO) in 2003 and dedicated her WFP career for 18 years in both Rome HQ and field operations: as the Special Assistant to the Regional Director in Sudan/South Sudan (2005 – 2011), as the Senior Policy Officer and Team Leader in the Government Partnerships Division, WFP headquarters (2011 – 2013), and then as the Special Assistant to the Assistant Executive Director for Operations Services (2014 – 2017). She grew up in Malawi and South Africa and achieved her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in European languages and literature at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.