Ain Hanani Budiono is the Senior Assistant Director in the Nutrition Division at the Ministry of Health, Malaysia. She graduated from the University Putra Malaysia with a Bachelor of Science (Hons.) Nutrition and Community Health in 2008.

Her experience as a nutritionist started in 2010 in the Johore State Health Department, which is responsible for the planning and implementation of nutrition programmes at the state level. Since 2016 in the Nutrition Division Headquarters, she was involved as the main secretariat in the development of the National Nutrition Policy of Malaysia 2.0. Currently, she oversees the coordination of the National Plan of Action for Nutrition of Malaysia (NPANM) and other intra and inter-sectoral relevant blueprints.

She is also responsible for food and nutrition security, which acts as the secretariat of the Technical Working Group for Food and Nutrition Security as well as the Food Safety and Nutrition Cluster of the National Food Security Policy. Her significant contributions in this area include the revision of Food Poverty Line Income for Food, 2019 and the calculation of the Cost-of-Living Benchmarks for Malaysians in 2024. She is currently working closely with the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security in the development of the National Blueprint for Food Security.

As one of the writers of the Malaysian Dietary Guidelines for Children and Adolescents 2023 and ASEAN Food Security Report 2022, she is actively advocating healthy eating and transforming sustainable food systems towards healthy diets including the prevention of food waste. She has also been involved in the Planetary Health Workshop and Summit in 2024.

She received the Excellence of Public Service Awards in 2014 and 2023.