Tanya Boudreau is the Chief of Party for the Famine Early Warning Systems (FEWS NET) Decision Support Team. With over 30 years of experience, she brings a unique perspective melded from years of extensive field experience along with decades of operational and senior management roles. A founding member of the Food Economy Group, Tanya established and helped institutionalize the first operational Household Economy Analysis (HEA) assessment and monitoring system in East Africa for Operation Lifeline Sudan in 1994 and has led HEA assessments throughout Africa and Asia, specializing in conflict-prone and pastoralist areas in Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Southern Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Pakistan.