Insight to Impact:
A Decision-Maker’s Guide to Navigating Food System Science

Aditi Mukherji, Platform Director, Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Impact Area, CGIAR

Alan Tollervey, Adviser, Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO)

Alessandra Galie, Team Leader, Gender, CGIAR – International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Alexander Tilley, Senior Scientist, CGIAR – WorldFish

Alienor De Cuypere, Advisor, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

Aline Mugisho, Executive Manager, Young Africa Works, CGIAR – International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

Andre Zandstra, Global Director, Donor Relations & Business Development, CGIAR

Andrew Campbell, Member Agrifutures Board, Past Interim Managing Director, CGIAR and Chief Executive Officer, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)

Ann Fleming, Director, Programs and Impact, CGIAR – WorldFish

Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Director, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

Appolinaire Djikeng, Director General, CGIAR – International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Areo Oluwaseun Evelyn, Chief Executive Officer, Farm to Fill Enterprises

Arno Bratz, Head of Strategy, Knowledge and Learning, Welthungerhilfe (WHH)

Aynalem Haile, Principal Investigator, CGIAR – International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)

Baboucar Manneh, Director General, CGIAR – AfricaRice

Barbra Sehlule Muzata, Communication Specialist, CGIAR – International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

Bernard Vanlauwe, Deputy Director General, CGIAR – International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

Birthe Paul, Head of Project, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

Bjoern Ole Sander, Senior Scientist, Climate Change Specialist, CGIAR – International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)

Bram Govaerts, Director General, CGIAR – International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

Bruce Hillier, Managing Partner, JBQ Africa

Cargele Masso, Director, Environmental Health and Biodiversity Impact Area, CGIAR

Caroline Morilhat, Project Officer, ADA (Appui au développement autonome) Microfinance

Catherine Ragasa, Gender Equality Initiative, Innovation Co-developer, CGIAR – International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Cecinta Nduru, Farmer and Seed Producer

Channing Arndt, Director and Research Professor, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University

Cheikh Mbow, Director General, Centre De Suivi Écologique

Chris Dickens, Principal Researcher, CGIAR – International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Chris Kettle, Principal Scientist, CGIAR – Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

Christine Chemnitz, Director, Agora Agriculture

Chrysantus Akem, Coordinator Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) Program Management Unit, CGIAR – International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

Cristiano Rossignoli, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) and Impact Assessment Research Leader, CGIAR

Cynthia Mugo, Policy and Stakeholder Engagement Advisor, CGIAR – International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Daniel Elger, Executive Director, CABI

Daniel Walker, Chief Scientist, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)

Dzifa Agbefu, Circular Bioeconomy Hub Coordinator, CGIAR – International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Ed Boydell, Food Systems Advisor, Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement

Els Lecoutere, Senior Scientist, Gender Platform, CGIAR – International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Eric Huttner, Research Program Manager Crops, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)

Evan Girvetz, Principal Scientist, CGIAR – Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

Felicitas Rohrig, Senior Policy Officer, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany

Finola Mohan, Impact Management and Learning Executive, Small Foundation, Ireland

Frank Place, Senior Advisor, CGIAR – International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Garba Hamidu Sharubutu, Executive Secretary of the Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria

Gilberthe Benimana, Senior Research Analyst, Development Strategies and Governance, CGIAR – International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Gizaw Desta, Use Case Lead, CGIAR – International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

Glenn Fitzgerald, Senior Research Scientist, Agriculture Victoria | Associate Professor, University of Melbourne

Gordon Day, Managing Director, Heshima Seeds Ltd

Grace Mijiga Mhango, President of the Grain Traders and Processors Association of Malawi

Grace Orirana, Research Fellow, CGIAR – WorldFish

Grahame Dixie, Executive Director, Grow Asia Partnership Ltd.

Grosjean Godefroy Head of Unit, Sustainable Finance, CGIAR – Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT

Guy Faure, Senior Policy Officer, European Commission, Research and Innovation

Namukolo Covic, Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, CGIAR, Director General’s Representative in Ethiopia, International Livestock Institute, and President, African Nutrition Society

Neena Mitter, Centre Director, Centre for Horticultural Science, The Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), University of Queensland

Neil Lazarow, Research Program Manager Water, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)

Nicoline de Haan, Director, Gender Impact Area, CGIAR

Nora Hanke-Louw, Deputy Country Representative for South Africa and Project Coordinator at CGIAR – International Water Management Institute (IWMI), and Coordinator for the Ukama Ustawi Initiative, CGIAR

Oliver Frith, Business Development Manager, The Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), University of Queensland

Olivier Panaud, Team Leader, Genome Analysis and Evolution, University of Perpignan

Oluchi Ezekannagha, Program Analyst, CGIAR

Philip Jarvis, Managing Director, Direct Agriculture

Purnima Menon, Senior Director, Food and Nutrition Policy; Acting Senior Director, Transformation Strategy, CGIAR – International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Rachel McDonnell, Deputy Director General, Research for Development, CGIAR – International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Rajeev K. Varshney, Director, Food Futures Institute, Murdoch University

Rajendra Jog, Country Director, Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA) and CEO, Agri-Entrepreneur (AE) Growth Foundation

Rajendra Singh Paroda, former Director General ICAR and Secretary, Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE), past general president of the Indian Science Congress Association and the Indian National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)

Ramesh Chand, Member of National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog), Government of India, Chairman of the Institute of Economic Growth and Member of the Australian Policy Advisory Council

Raphael Mrode, Principal Scientist – Quantitative Geneticist in Dairy, CGIAR – International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Ravi Khetarpal, Executive Secretary, Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAARI) and Chair of Global Forum on Agricultural Research and Innovation (GFAR)

Ricardo Labarta, Program Leader, CGIAR Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA)

Rob Vos, Senior Research Fellow, Markets, Trade and Institutions (MTI), CGIAR – International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Rony Oved, Chief Executive Officer, Agromax

Ruben G. Echeverria, Senior Advisor, Agricultural Development, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Sarah M. Schmidt, Advisor Agricultural Research for Development Germany (GIZ)

Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, World Food Prize Laureate 2021

Simeon Ehui, Director General, CGIAR – International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

Simon Heck, Director General, CGIAR – International Potato Center (CIP)

Simon Winter, Executive Director, Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture

Siobhan Mor, Reader in One Health, Universite of Liverpool and Jointly Appointed Principal Scientist, CGIAR – International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Sir David Nunes Nabarro, 4SD Foundation, Professor and Co-Director, Institute of Global Health and Innovation, Imperial College of London and Special Envoy on COVID-19 for the World Health Organization

Stanford Blade, Deputy Director General (Research), CGIAR – International Crops Research Institute (ICRISAT)

Stefan Kachelriess-Matthess, Advisor Development Cooperation

Temina Lalani-Shariff, Regional Director, South Asia, CGIAR

Teresa Borelli, Scientist, CGIAR – Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

Timmo Gaasbeek, Policy Coordinating Officer, Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Tomas Caffrey Osvald, Networks and Systems Lead, Small Foundation, Ireland

Trilochan Mohapatra, Chairperson, Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Authority, Government of India and Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the Indian National Science Academy and the Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding

Vaida Odongo, Africa Network Lead, The +1 Global Fund, The Roddenberry Foundation

Velu Govindan, Principal Scientist | Head- Bread Wheat Breeding, Global Wheat Program, Mexico, CGIAR – International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

Veronica Doerr, Principal, Sustineo and Expert Advisor, Australia’s National Climate Risk Assessment

Will Rogers, Managing Director, Resourced

Wilson Nkhata, Scientist Crops for Nutrition and Health, CGIAR – Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT

Yvonne Pinto, Director General, CGIAR – International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)