Jan Low
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Jan Low (born 1955[1]) is an American food scientist. She is known for her work helping develop the biofortified orange-fleshed sweet potato at the CGIAR International Potato Center, for which she was a co-recipient of the 2016 World Food Prize[2] alongside Maria Andrade, Robert Mwanga, and Howarth Bouis.[3]
Low was born in 1955 in Denver, Colorado.[1] She attended Pomona College and spent four years in Zaire with the Peace Corps before earning a doctorate in agricultural economics at Cornell University in 1994.[2][1]
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