As director of the FAO's Agrifood Economics Division (ESA), David leads work on policy monitoring, policy reform, and realignment of incentives to support agrifood system transformation. He also provides leadership on two priority areas for the institution: resilience and bioeconomy.

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Before joining FAO, David Laborde worked at the International Food Policy Research Institute of the CGIAR in Washington D.C. for 16 years as part of the Markets, Trade, and Institution Division. He led the research theme on Macroeconomics and Trade and was also co-director of the Ceres2030 project.

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Valeria is Regional Representative of the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region and Senior Research Coordinator in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit at IFPRI where she analyses policies influencing economic development, trade, and sustainability in agriculture. 
 
Valeria currently leads Avanzar2030, an evidence-based research project that will identify and provide the costing for innovative policies, technologies and institutions in agrifood system that address climate change, economic well-being, nutrition and food security in the LAC region.  
Valeria has significant experience in economic development and growth using computable general equilibrium (CGE) models as an analytical tool and has taught courses on the theory and application of CGE models

Jaron has worked with agricultural research communities, publishers, UN agencies, donors, and development groups across Sub-Saharan Africa for more than a decade to support the changing and complex sociotechnical environment of research, evidence, and data.  

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Currently Global Director for Evidence and Policy at CABI, Jaron previously worked at the Universtiy of Notre Dame and Cornell University. She also served as director of a developing world agricultural science information public-private partnership (TEEAL) , as well as program manager for AGROA, a Research4Life (R4L) partnership across WHO, FAO, and UNEP, and co-director of the Ceres2030 project.

Carin has worked for over fifteen years advising policy makers, donors, and parliamentarians in more than 20 countries on public and private investment and trade in agriculture and food systems. She co-founded the Shamba Centre to continue her lifelong quest to end hunger and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. 

Before setting up the Shamba Centre, Carin was the Director of Agriculture, Trade, and Investment at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and Director of the Trade Information Project at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP). She was also a co-director of the Ceres2030 project.