Speakers Bio

Dr Alok K. Sikka is with the International Water Management Institute, Delhi Office as IWMI Representative-India since April, 2016. Prior to joining IWMI, he served as Deputy Director General (Natural Resource Management), Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and Technical Expert (Watershed Development) (in the rank of Additional Secretary to Govt. of India), National Rainfed Area Authority (NRAA), Planning Commission, Government of India, New Delhi. He was Director of ICAR Research Complex for Eastern Region, Patna and Basin Coordinator for Indo-Gangetic Basin under the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food from 2002-2007. He is Ph. D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering with specialization in Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering from Utah State University, Logan, Utah. Besides working with ICAR for many years at Indian Institute of Soil & Water Conservation, Dehradun and its Research Centres, he was with National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee; visiting Professor at University of Arizona, Tucson; and Faculty at the Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA. He has more than 250 publications and is recipient of many national awards including Fellow of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

He has a rich and diverse experience of over 39 years in research, institutional and policy issues, teaching, training, extension and consultancy in the areas of natural resource management, soil & water conservation, watershed management, water harvesting, hydrologic modelling, water management, drought management, climate change, water productivity and farming systems. He has more than 250 publications in the form of research papers in the international and national Journals/Proceedings, book chapters, bulletins, reports and books to his credit. He is also recipient of many national awards and recognition.

Ms. Hansen is a strategist working with food system decision-makers to illuminate systems dynamics, spur social innovation, and ensure sustainable development. She has advised Heads of State, UN Executive Directors, Civil Society leaders and two World Food Prize Laureates. Ms. Hansen served as the CEO of GKI, a social enterprise advancing systems thinking, and is a former Partner and Director of Agriculture & Food Security at Dalberg, a global strategy firm. She is pursuing her Ph.D. and lecturing at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town and is a contributing author to two books; Corporate Citizenship in Africa and Financial Inclusion in Africa.

Ardhiantie is a planner associate at the Directorate of Health and Community Nutrition, Ministry of National Development Planning/National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) Republic of Indonesia. She holds a master’s degree in public health from the University of Melbourne Australia and bachelor’s degree from Public Health Faculty, University of Indonesia. She actively involves in the formulation of the five-year national medium-term development plan and the government annual workplan for health sector.

She is responsible for coordinating the preparation and monitoring and evaluation of loan and grant-financed health projects. She is also part of the directorate team responsible for the planning and technical coordination of Healthy Lifestyle Community Movement (Gerakan Masyarakat Hidup Sehat) and integrated nutrition intervention for accelerating stunting reduction in Indonesia.

Beth Roberts is the Program Manager for the Center for Women’s Land Rights at Landesa. She is a law, policy, and gender specialist who works to strengthen gender-equal and socially inclusive rights to and control over land and productive assets. She provides legal and policy recommendations to government decision-makers, traditional authorities, civil society partners, and international human rights and climate change bodies. Beth holds three advanced degrees from the University of Washington: a Master of Public Administration (MPA) with a focus on international development and nonprofit management, a Juris Doctor (JD), and an LL.M in Sustainable International Development Law.

Brian is UK-based and operates a global consultancy business bridging the gap between food companies and farming in a quest for mutually beneficial approaches to achieving sustainable food systems.

Currently Brian holds the post of Director for the Dairy Sustainability Framework, launched in November 2013. This program covers 30% of global milk production and is open to all milk producing regions of the globe. The Framework is a model that allows members to adapt their sustainability programs to suit local needs and priorities in a quantifiable way. The DSF aggregates annual reporting to enable key sustainability messages to be developed based on evidence regarding the sectors continuous sustainability improvements. It is Brian’s role to support the members with their sustainability initiatives under the Framework, as well as co-ordinating the development of the necessary high level indicator metrics and associated reporting mechanisms.

As the Director for the DSF, Brian is also responsible for a Board of nine global (Global Dairy Association CEO’s) directors and the coordination of the DSF multi-stakeholder advisory Group who both challenge and support the DSF Board and subsequent DSF operational procedures.

Brian is also Global Dairy Platform’s (GDP) Global sector Lead for Sustainability. Brian is currently a Steering Group member of the Dairy Asia initiative. Dairy Asia brings 13 Asian Countries together to collaborate on sustainable dairy production. Brian’s key area of influence on this Committee is to drive the initiative beyond one that just talks and publishes reports.

Until July 2017, Brian coordinated the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative Platform’s (SAI Platform) work on sustainable dairy and beef production. Brian led the group of companies in the Dairy Working Group to be a recognised voice for sustainable dairy production. Brian is also the reason SAI Platform now have a dedicated Beef Working Group. Brian was instrumental in connecting the SAI Beef Working Group to the Global Round Table for Sustainable Beef (GRSB).

Brian completed 2 terms as the Environment Representative on the International Dairy Federation’s (IDF) Science and Programme Coordination Committee (where all scientific programs for the DSF are reviewed and ratified) and prior to this, 2 terms as Chair of the IDF Standing Committee on Environment the scientific Group responsible for the IDF’s environmental science program. Membership was from the 48 member countries of the IDF.

Caitlin Corner-Dolloff is the Resilient Agriculture Program Lead for the Office of Capacity Building and Development in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service. Her programs build technical capacity of government institutions for evidence-based agriculture development planning in the face of environmental challenges, and have spanned over 25 countries in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. She was previously a Climate Change Adaptation Specialist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), researching interdisciplinary decision-support processes and multi-level engagement strategies for scaling climate-smart agriculture. She holds a MSc in Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford and a BA in Participatory Environmental Management from the College Scholar Program at Cornell University.

Daniela Chiriac is a Senior Analyst in CPI’s London office where she leads the Sustainable Agriculture for Smallholders in Central and West Africa stream of the Lab. At CPI, she manages the IFAD grant funding, as well as supporting the development and refinement of innovative financial instruments selected by the Lab. Prior to joining CPI, Daniela worked as Programme Manager, and subsequently Senior Adviser, for International Development Enterprises (iDE UK), focusing on market-based approaches to increase climate resilience of smallholder farmers in Africa and Asia. In this position, and in her previous roles with two consulting companies, she managed large DfID and European Commission international development projects. She holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Bucharest (Romania) and is in the final stage of her Master’s in Environmental Economics at the University of London.

Daniele Eckert Matzembacher is a Ph.D. student in the Postgraduate Program in Administration at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (PPGA / UFRGS), in the area of Innovation, Technology, and Sustainability. Her research interests are in the impact of food waste reduction through entrepreneurship and sustainability in food supply chains.

Enda works for the Executive Office of the President of Indonesia on Priority Program Management. His overall focus in on improving government business processes whilst also working on specific sectors such as the sustainable environmental financing portfolio, fiscal reforms and the government’s community driven development program. Prior to this Enda worked for the World Bank as a Public Financial Management resident advisor for the Government of Indonesia. Enda has also worked for the Ministry of Finance, office of the Treasury and also the budget office during the ministry’s early reform stages. Enda holds a masters in Economics, Finance and Management from the University of Bristol, UK.

Fabrizio Bresciani joined IFAD in 2014 as the Lead Regional Economist in the Asia and Pacific Division. His main areas of interest include rural transformation, food security, and inclusive and sustainable models of value chain development. With the World Bank he has previously served as a Senior Agricultural Economist and Agriculture Sector Coordinator in Indonesia (2011-2014) and as a Rural Development Economist in the Philippines (2007-2011). Before joining the World Bank, Fabrizio Bresciani worked as an Economist at the Agricultural Development Economics Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome (2001-2007) and at the World Bank’s Development Economics Research Group (1998-2001). He holds a PhD in Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a MSc in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics from the Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia.

Gianmarco Jamal Amato is a master student of Integrated Natural Ressource Management at the Humboldt University of Berlin. In July 2018 he archived his bachelor in Agricultural Sciences. During his studies, he had the opportunity to complete an internship for the German governmental department of nutrition and agriculture in the division of „Global Nutrition and International Organizations for Food and Agriculture“. Gianmarco Jamal currently lives in the German Capital of Berlin, where he was born and raised but due to his Italian background he spends several months of the year in the rural Sicilian Island of Pantelleria, Italy where he gets in touch with the smallholder farmers and the agriculture of the region.

Hans Loth is Global Head UN Environment Partnership at Rabobank. He is responsible for building and managing the bank’s new strategic partnership, which is a keystone in the bank’s global environmental work. Prior to taking up his current position, Hans fulfilled various general management and strategy roles within the Rabobank Group. Most recently, he was Director Strategy & Business Change for Rabobank Indonesia, where he was responsible for developing and implementing a new strategy for the bank in this key Asian market. Prior to that Hans worked with Rabobank Foundation, as well as Rabobank’s corporate banking team, through which he developed a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities of global food value chains – “from Farm to Fork”. Hans started his career an international mergers and acquisitions lawyer at a private law firm. With his eldest daughter off to university, Hans lives with his wife and two sons in Hilversum, the Netherlands.

Hayden Montgomery is the Special Representative of the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases. From 2013 until 2016, Hayden was New Zealand’s Ambassador to Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. Prior to this, Hayden worked extensively on climate change policy, including as lead negotiator for agriculture and forestry for New Zealand in the United Nations Climate Change negotiations and as a Special Adviser based in the New Zealand Embassy in Paris, France.

Jana Koerner is the scaling officer of the CGIAR Research Programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), a staff member of International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and member of the CGIAR/GIZ Task Force on Scaling. Based in Vietnam, she supports the CCAFS Learning Platform “Partnerships and Capacity Building for Scaling CSA”.

Dr Jayne Curnow is the Research Program Manager for Social Sciences at the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Development (ACIAR) and Chair of the ACIAR Gender Committee. Her portfolio invests in collaborative research projects between Australian researchers and country partners in PNG, Fiji, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Philippines, and Vietnam. Jayne is a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, College of Asia & the Pacific, a Director on the Board of Volunteering ACT and graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She is fluent in Bahasa Indonesian and Malay.

John Ingram’s interests are in the conceptual framing of food systems; the interactions among the many actors involved and their varied activities, and the outcomes of their activities for food security, livelihoods and environment; and food system resilience. He has designed and led regional food system research projects in Europe, south Asia, southern Africa and the Caribbean and has conceived, developed and led a range of major international research initiatives. He has had substantial interaction with FAO, UNEP and CGIAR and many other international organisations, with national departments and agencies, with NGOs, and with businesses in the food sector helping to establish research on the links between food security and environment through the analysis of food systems. In addition to leading the food system research group within the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute, he also leads the multi-university post-graduate food systems training programme (IFSTAL) and coordinates the UK Global Food Security programme ‘Resilience of the UK Food System’. He is an Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at Somerville College.

Dr Julie Ingram is Reader in Sustainable Agri-environmental Systems at University of Gloucestershire, UK. Her main research interests are concerned with Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems, specifically, how farmer learning and adaptation can be supported with different extension approaches and tools. She has experience with a range of participatory approaches and techniques in the context of soil, agroforestry, agrometeorology in Africa and Asia. Julie is an editor of the Journal of Agricultural Extension and Education and a member of the International Farming Systems Association Conference steering committee.

Lini is the Flagship Leader for Low Emissions Development for CCAFS and Research Professor at the Gund Institute for Environment and Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont. She was previously the Director of the Center for Sustainable Agriculture at the University of Vermont (2007-2009); Principle Scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) (1994-2005); and Program Officer for Asia’s Rural Poverty and Resources Program at the Ford Foundation (1991-1994). Lini is a member of the Forest, Trees and Livelihoods editorial board.
Lini’s areas of expertise include climate change mitigation, local governance, environment and rural livelihoods, community-based forest management, participatory action research and adaptive collaborative management. She conducted field research primarily in Asia, especially Indonesian Borneo.

Madhur Gautam is a Lead Economist with the Agriculture Global Practice at the World Bank. He has a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Maryland and a Masters Degree from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. His work experience spans across many parts of the World Bank including Development Economics (Research), Agricultural Policies Division, Independent Evaluation Group, Operations units in Africa and South Asia, and Global Engagements. The main focus of his work has been on agriculture and food policy analysis and rural development strategy. In addition to leading major evaluations, including the review of the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Debt Relief Program, he has authored and contributed to numerous country and sector development strategies, sector and topical analytical and diagnostic reports, policy notes and journal papers. His research interests include productivity growth, structural transformation, rural poverty, risk management, agricultural research and extension, rural finance, food price volatility, social safety nets, and broadly agriculture and rural development policy.

Science Officer for CCAFS East Africa. Maren holds a PhD in Development Economics from Wageningen University. Maren coordinates implementation of CCAFS research in East Africa to respond to regional climate change related research needs and priorities, synthesizing knowledge outputs from the research activities including emerging lessons. In addition, she works with policy makers to integrate scientific evidence into strategies, frameworks and policies related to climate change, agriculture, food and nutrition security across scales with a focus on climate-smart agriculture; including supporting the African Group of Negotiators and countries in East Africa to fulfil their national, regional and international climate-related commitments.

Maria Veronica Gottret is currently a Senior Technical Advisor for Agriculture and Livelihoods Research at Catholic Relief Services (CRS). She is a social scientist with a PhD in Development Studies from the International Institute of Social Sciences, The Netherlands, and an MS and BS in Food and Resource Economics from University of Florida, USA. She has 27 years of experience in research and development. In her current position she led CRS Agriculture and Livelihoods (A&L) Program in the development of its theory of change and corresponding learning agenda and agency-level performance metrics, has been working in Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia to advance this work. This includes assessing smallholder advances along a pathway to prosperity and resilience; formative research on the role of agriculture for improving nutritional outcomes; and operations research to assess the impact of CRS approach for capacity building in A&L programming (branded as SMART Skills) in generating desired behavioral changes and livelihood outcomes. She is passionate about working at the interface between research and development, which started while working at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) as an economist (1990-2006) and continued when she joined the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) as value chain specialist in the Mesoamerican Agro-environmental Program (2006 – 2012). Email maria.gottret@crs.org

Moray is a Sustainable Land Use, Climate Change and Supply Chain Specialist with over 20 years’ experience in private, public and NGO sectors. With a background in Land Economics and a Master’s degree in Environment and Development he has experience from Latin America, Africa and South East Asia.

With DFID Moray was centrally involved in the creating and testing of Indonesia’s initial Timber Legality Assurance System, and more recently worked with WRI on sustainable palm oil, before joining PwC as Director of Sustainability & Climate Change Consulting.

As Vice President at Olam he works to ensure that the Corporate Purpose – Re-Imagining Global Agriculture and Food Systems – meets scientific and stakeholder expectations, is implemented to bring quantifiable benefits to the business, and to generate knowledge and change though partnerships.

Neha Durga is a consultant with International Water Management Institute (IWMI), where she conducts and manages research related to solar irrigation and its impacts on energy, environment and livelihoods in India. She has been doing policy relevant research in energy and water sectors for past 8 years and has extensive experience in designing cum executing action research pilots and synthesizing results.

Olaf Westermann is Catholic Relief Services’ Senior Technical Advisor for Climate Change, providing support to CRS’ global agriculture programming. Previously he worked with the global CGIAR research program on climate change, agriculture and food security (CCAFS), among others coordinating the development of the Climate Smart Agriculture “CSA 101” web-based platform. From 2008 to 2014, Olaf worked for the Danish Development Agency (DANIDA) as a senior advisor on protected areas management and climate change in Bolivia, and before that with the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Colombia. At CIAT he conducted research on social and organizational aspects of watershed management including collective action, participatory monitoring and evaluation, and stakeholder and gender analysis. He has a PhD in International Development and Environmental Planning. Email olaf.westermann@crs.org

Olivia is advisor to the US rice-importing company Lotus Foods, after two decades working in communications in international agriculture, first in the CGIAR and then at Cornell’s International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD). As CIIFAD’s information director, she was impressed by how farmers trained on System of Rice Intensification (SRI) methods were transitioning from rice deficits to rice surpluses, and she committed to finding markets for their traditional varieties. Since 2009, as Lotus Foods’ SRI Liaison, she has helped the company establish SRI supply chains in multiple countries and frame the messaging to consumers and the food industry.

Peter Läderach is the Climate Change Theme Leader at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and the Contact point of the global program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). Peter is based in Rome, Italy as a joint Senior Climate Expert for CIAT, CCAFS, IFAD and WFP. Peter led the expansion of the Climate Change theme at CIAT to Central America, Africa and Asia, with extensive work experience in more than 20 countries. More than 15 years of experience of research in developing countries to support the goals of alleviating poverty, adapting to and mitigating climate change, and protecting the environment. Peter’s passion is designing and conducting research that leads to visible impact. His work has supported private sector, NGO’s, governments and multinational agencies in taking evidence-based decisions and deliver impact on the ground. Peter is also a globally recognized coffee and cocoa expert. Peter holds an Msc in Geography and a PhD in Tropical Agriculture (suma cum laude), he has published over 50 scientific peer-reviewed articles.

Seconded by ICRISAT, Pierre Sibiry Traore is Director of R&D at Manobi Africa, a leading social company that orchestrates value creation in emergent smallholder markets. There, he developed the agCelerant concept of phygital agriculture, which captures the opportunity for physically based, digitally driven solutions to secure food sustainability, transparency and honorable sourcing. With the NADiRA innovation action, agCelerant incorporates EO and IoT to reduce the operating costs and increase the timeliness, granularity and reach of pre-, in- and post-season risk management services. Targeting a 200 million producer market for incorporation into structured agricultural value chains, this approach has been endorsed by major private, public and development finance partners.

Ram Dhulipala leads the digital agriculture theme at ICRISAT. After obtaining his engineering degree from Government Engineering College in Hyderabad in 2004, He worked as a software engineer in Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) from 2004 to 2010. In TCS, he worked primarily in the telecom domain for customers like Ericsson, British Telecom and was into technologies like VOIP, OSI stack and SIP programming. He also has rich experience in architecting solutions in Enterprise IT environments. After obtaining MBA in 2011, he worked in executive positions in the corporate sector in the areas of Finance, Corporate Strategy, Program Management and M&A across diverse sectors. In his capacity as the Theme Leader of Digital Agriculture, Ram drives range of action research projects that range from piloting on the use of latest digital technologies in agriculture to scaling out proven technologies with an aim to deliver impact at scale. He has been instrumental in strategizing and executing a private sector and partnership based approach towards digital agriculture at ICRISAT

Rene Vidallo is the IIRR Philippine Program Director and is also the lead person in the development and growth of IIRR’s Climate Smart Agriculture Program in the Philippines. He previously held posts in the Institute as Asia Program Specialist for Agriculture and Natural Resource Management and later as Program Manager for Food Security and Sustainable Livelihood. Aside from providing guidance and assistance to Philippines-based staff in program development, he also provides technical assistance to Cambodia and Myanmar staff on climate-smart agriculture programming. He has a degree in Forestry majoring in Social Forestry.

Rosa Maria Roman-Cuesta, an Alexander Von Humboldt fellow, has been a tropical forest ecologist with CIFOR’s Climate Change, Energy and Low Emission Development (CCE) team since July 2017. She also acts as CIFOR’s focal point for CCAFS, the research program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security. Rosa Maria gained her PhD on tropical forest disturbances (2002) in the frame of an EU project on forest restoration and conservation in Latin America (SUCRE). She has since specialized in land use emissions and climate change mitigation at national scales, taking a particular interest in forest monitoring, carbon balances, and the REDD+ mechanism. As a Forest Officer and MRV advisor, Rosa Maria spent three years with FAO’s UN-REDD team directly supporting Mexico and Panama’s Governments with their Climate Change and REDD+ programs. She is well acquainted with the UNFCCC framework and principles, IPCC AFOLU guidelines, and technical needs and requirements for NDCs and NAMA development, having been invited to several TSU-IPCC expert meetings. Her latest work under CCAFS projects has expanded her mitigation expertise into more comprehensive landscape approaches that include other land uses, particularly agriculture and wetlands. She has actively participated in the development of CIFOR’s latest tropical wetland and peatland map (2017) and has a particular interest in peatland monitoring (i.e. peat degradation). Rosa has published more than 30 peer-reviewed journal articles and several book chapters.

Samyuktha Kannan is a Research Analyst with the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division at IFPRI. Her research focuses on agriculture, nutrition and financial access. She is a graduate in applied economics from Cornell University and IIT Madras.

Shilp Verma is a researcher specializing in Water-Energy-Food Policies with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI). An alumnus of University of Delhi, Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) and UNESCO-IHE, Delft, Shilp has nearly 20 years of experience in the water, energy and rural livelihoods domain. He has been associated with IWMI since 2001, in different capacities. In his current role, Shilp manages the IWMI-Tata Water Policy Program in India with a mandate of converting science into policy action. His research covers a range of themes relevant for smallholder farming and water security in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Sophia Huyer is Gender and Social Inclusion Leader at the CGIAR Research Programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) as well as Director of Women in Global Science and Technology (WISAT) based in Brighton, Canada. She has engaged in research and policy analysis on global gender equality issues relating to technology, innovation and sustainable development for over 20 years. She was with the Gender Advisory Board of the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development (GAB-CSTD) from 1998 – 2014 and Senior Advisor to the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) at The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) from 2009-2013. Major publications include “Closing the Gender Gap in Agriculture” as Guest Editor of a Special Issue on Gender, Agriculture and Climate Change in Gender, Technology and Development ; “Gender and Food Security in a Changing Climate” (2019) in Taking stock: Data and evidence on gender equality in digital access, skills and leadership published by the UNU Institute on Computing and Society/International Telecommunications Union. Currently she is Guest Editor on a special issue of Climatic Change titled Towards Gender Equality in Climate-Smart Agriculture: Approaches and Opportunities. Sophia held a Fulbright Fellowship at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 2000. She received her Ph.D. from York University in Toronto.

Steven D. Prager is a research leader with over 20 years of research and development experience in academia as well as the public, private and international development sectors. He is currently a Principal Scientist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) we here leads strategic foresight and modelling activities that integrate across the social, economic and biophysical domains. He was a professor of geography in Geographic Information Science from 2004 to 2014 prior to joining CIAT. Steve is also the co-leader of the PIM Strategic Foresight activity through which he is working with partners in all 15 centres of the CGIAR.

In CIAT, Steve co-leads the agriculture systems modelling team, a group comprised of over 20 statisticians, climate scientists, geographers, economists, computer scientists and more. In addition to the foresight work, his work with this team, Steve is conducting global-scale research on climate services and in agricultural risk management more broadly.

Steve regularly crosses intra- and inter-institutional boundaries and works across many regions with specific activities in Latin America, East Africa, and SE Asia. He has a strong record of accomplishment in partnership development and resource mobilization, mentoring early career staff, and integration across the institution. Steve has a doctorate in geography from Simon Fraser University, where he specialized in sustainable development, and has been with CIAT for approximately five years.

Susannah is an Associate Professor of Environment and Development at University of Leeds, UK. Susannah has particular regional expertise in Africa, particularly Tanzania, where she has worked for nearly 20 years. Susannah works with a wide range of academic and non-academic partners to develop better understanding of:

• The dynamics, resilience and vulnerability of social-ecological systems, landscapes, and livelihoods
• The impact on human well-being and livelihoods of differing modes of conservation and ecosystem services governance and management, and climate change
• Climate change adaptation
• Climate compatible development intervention and policy

Susannah currently coordinates the GCRF-AFRICAP programme in Tanzania – focusing on research and capacity building for sustainable and climate-resilient agricultural development.

Tatiana Gumucio is a Postdoctoral Research Scientist based at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), at Columbia University, New York. Her research analyses how social differences such as gender, ethnicity and race influence smallholder farmers’ risk perceptions, climate information needs and capacities to respond and adapt to climate variability and change. She seeks to inform effective and equitable decision-making and program development related to climate in the agricultural and food security sectors. She holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Florida.

Timothy Krupnik is a Senior Scientist and Systems Agronomist with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center’s (CIMMYT). He serves as one of the Institute’s Regional Strategic Leaders for South and South East Asia, and leads an innovative science team implementing a portfolio of research for development projects focused on the principles of sustainable and ecological intensification in smallholder farming systems. His team’s research spans disciplines and brings together technical skills ranging from systems agronomy, remote sensing, socioeconomics, environmental modeling and data science, with the objective of addressing key knowledge gaps and efforts required to raise farmers’ productivity and resilience in the context of climate variability and biophysical, economic, and sociocultural diversity. Krupnik also leads the CCAFS supported “Big Data Analytics for Climate Smart Agriculture” Flagship 2 Project in South Asia.

Tobias is an Agriculture Economist at the World Bank, focusing on Climate & Agriculture. He is part of project teams in Latin America, Africa and South Asia, coordinates the delivery of Climate Smart Investment Plans in 10 countries and acts as focal point for international for a on climate and agriculture. Tobias joined the Bank as a Carlo Schmid Fellow in 2011. Before that he was a Young Leaders for Sustainability Fellow with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). He holds a Master in Public Administration (MPA) from the London School of Economics (LSE) and a Bachelor of Arts in Economic Sciences from St. Gallen University.

Todd Rosenstock is an Environmental Scientist with the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) where he investigates how smallholder agriculture affects the environment and society. In particular, Dr. Rosenstock’s research applies observational and manipulative experiments, data synthesis and modeling techniques to understand the synergies and tradeoffs among food production, soil health and climate at farm- and landscape scales and optimize local and global benefits from agricultural systems in developing countries. Methods development for monitoring social and environmental change and climate-smart agriculture are integral theme of his current work. Prior to his work at ICRAF, Dr. Rosenstock assessed the causes and consequences of modifying the nitrogen cycle in California, USA. He is particularly interested in integrative, multidisciplinary science that can be applied to emerging issues in coupled human-natural systems and thus is always keen to find ways to link science with public policy. Dr. Rosenstock currently works in diverse smallholder farming systems in East Africa and Latin America. Dr. Rosenstock is trained in Agroecology (PhD, University of California, Davis), International Agricultural Development (MS, University of California, Davis), and Horticulture (BS, University of Georgia, Athens).

Vijay Vardhan is a Post Graduate in Agriculture and leads the Natural Resource Management interventions in ITC’s Social Investments programme. Vijay has over 20 years of experience in the development sector with expertise in Sustainable Agriculture, Water Stewardship, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development. He has spearheaded ITC’s NRM programmes for over a decade across ITC’s value chain catchments. Vijay has participated and shared his expertise in various national and international forums including UN Conference on Biodiversity, World Water Forum, WWF, IUCN, FICCI, CII, UNGCNI workshops and academic institutions including the IIMs.

Winaryo Suyono has an Agronomy and Natural Resources & Environment Management background. He used to work at the Indonesian Coffee and Cocoa Research Institute (ICCRI) as a researcher for 20 years. One of his researches and developments resulted in the certification of the Organic Arabica Coffee Farmer Group in Central Aceh in 1992. This was the first certified organic product project in Indonesia.

In 1999, he was appointed as International Auditor by a certification body in the Netherlands called Skal, to carry out an audit of organic farming systems based on European Union standards (EEC 2092/91; EC 834/2007 & EC 889/2008), United States standards (NOP- USDA) and Japanese standards (JAS) in South East Asian and Eastern Asian countries. He worked as an international auditor on these organic programs for 5 years.

In 2003, he was asked to join the Control Union of Indonesia and was appointed as a Certifier for several certification programs, namely Organic European Union, NOP-USDA and JAS until now; GlobalGAP (2004 – 2011); UTZ (2006 – Now); C.A.F.E. Practices (2006 – 2015); Common Code for the Coffee Community (4C) (2007 – now); Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) and Organic Content Standard (OCS) (2008 – 2017); Global Recycle Standard (GRS) (2010 – 2017); Indonesian wood legality system (SVLK) (2015 – now) and Bird Friendly Coffee (2010 – now).

Besides working as an Auditor and International Certifier, he has also been a member of the Organic Agriculture Task Force, Department of Agriculture, Republic of Indonesia (2001 – 2017) and a member of the Standard Committee of UTZ Certified the Netherlands (2011 – 2017).