World Agriculture Forum - Innovating for Sustainable Future

Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Managing Director for Systems Transformation at CGIAR, Washington, DC. He is a Commissioner of the Food Systems Economics Commission and Co-Chair of the Think20 Task Force on Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture. Swinnen is also a member of the Champions 12.3 Leadership Group to Reduce Food Loss and Waste and the Africa Europe Strategic Task Force on Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems. Previously, he was a professor at KU Leuven and an economist at the World Bank.