Dr. Mohammad Monirul Hasan is the FoSTr country facilitator for Bangladesh. Dr. Hasan is a Country Advisor for Foresight for Food Systems, Social Protection, and Environment in the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) in Bangladesh. Being an economist, Dr. Hasan is working broadly on food systems, food and nutrition security policies, market and trade, micro-finance and poverty, climate change and vulnerability, agricultural efficiency, health care utilization, and social protection. He coordinates Foresight for food systems transformation (FoSTr) project in Bangladesh under the Foresight4food initiative implemented by Oxford University and Wageningen University and Research.

Before joining GAIN, he worked with the UN-FAO Bangladesh as a Market and Trade Policy Advisor for more than four years. Before that, Dr. Hasan served East-West University in Dhaka as an Assistant Professor in Economics. He conducted post-doctoral research at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn from where he finished his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Agriculture Economics.  He holds three master’s degrees, Food and Resource Economics from the University of Bonn (Germany), Rural Development and Agri-business from Corvinus University of Budapest (Hungary), and Economics from the University of Dhaka (Bangladesh).

Stellah Byakika is the FoSTr country facilitator for Uganda. She is a lecturer in the Department of Food Technology and Nutrition, at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. She holds a Ph.D., MSc., and BSc. in Food Science and Technology. She is involved in teaching various food science courses, related to food safety, food value addition, postharvest management and nutrition in which she employs food systems thinking.

Stellah also has contributed to strengthening the components of food systems in both undergraduate and postgraduate curricula in her department. She coordinates undergraduate research and guides students in integrating food systems into their work. Her research revolves around improving the quality and safety of foods along different value chains. She serves as a country facilitator for the Foresight for Food Systems Transformation (FoSTr) Programme in Uganda, demonstrating her commitment to addressing complex food and nutrition security challenges through a systems approach.

Walid Abed Rabboh is a prominent agricultural, food security, and natural resource management expert who worked for several public, private, and UN agencies at national, regional, and international levels in developing policies, strategies, and plans. Among the most recent assignments were leading the teams that developed the Jordan Food Security Strategy and Action Plan, Lead Advisor for the preparation of the Jordan Voluntary Review of the SDGs 2022 and leading the team for the Formulation of the Regional Strategic Framework Document for Achieving Zero Hunger in the Arab Region.

Furthermore, Walid served as the Senior Coordinator for the international team tasked with the preparation of the Jordan Response Plan for the Syrian Crisis during 2013-2018. He also served in several key positions in Jordan such as the Secretary General of the Higher Agricultural Council, Director of Policies and Planning in the Ministry of Agriculture in Jordan, and Minister of Agriculture in Palestine.

Zoe Barois is a junior advisor for food systems transformation working at Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation. In this role, she provides analytical and organizational support for food system transformation processes. Zoe works in multi-stakeholder settings applying a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods relating to explore plausible food system futures. 

Zoe has a diverse background in Global Health (research) and is currently pursuing the Advanced Masters in International Development programme at Radboud University. Through this programme Zoe explores complex global socio-economic and environmental risks and catalysing opportunities, in pursuit of sustainable deve­lopment.

Wangeci Gitata-Kiriga is the Country Facilitator for Foresight4Food FoSTr programme in Kenya. A market systems development expert, Wangeci has seen first-hand the difference that fair pricing and inclusive business models can have on farming communities and supply chains. A former representative on the Fair-Trade Advocacy Organisation board based in Brussels and a board representative of Common Cause Georgia (US). Wangeci believes in using her voice to improve representation at the table.

A sought-after facilitator and moderator, Wangeci has facilitated global convenings such as the UNCTAD 14, EU Partnership Forums, OCDC Cooperative Summits, ICA Kigali Conference, Prudential Africa and now Foresight4Food.

Wangeci is currently New Faces New Voices (Kenya Chapter) Vice Chair, Girls 4 Girls mentor and board member (Kenya) and founder of Kijani Group, where she is leveraging her experience in agricultural trade to contribute to the progress of agri-based households. She has also recently launched the Revolutionary Coffee brand in Kenya.

Wangeci is a lawyer by training and a women’s champion at heart. She has focused her energy over the last 10 years on rural livelihoods and improvement through certification and trade across Africa in which she worked, for a significant time, as a part of the senior leadership of Fairtrade in Africa. Growing up in a coffee farming community has rooted Wangeci’s interest in agriculture as well as experience in the vulnerability of farmers. This disadvantaged position of farmers is the narrative that she is working very hard to change and is partnering with different organisations to do so.

Rathana Peou Norbert-Munns is an award-winning futurist (APF- IF 2022). She is an experienced researcher and practitioner on Climate change, Agriculture and Food Security currently based in S.E. Asia. She has extensive experience in design, implementation, capacity building, and analysis within the practice of foresight planning for sustainable and resilient Food Systems.

She brings a depth of experience and expertise within the fields of Foresight and Scenarios Planning in Asia, actively contributing for 10 years to the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) as a Regional Scenarios Coordinator first in South Asia, and then in Southeast Asia and now worked with the FAO Regional Office of Asia Pacific. She is a research fellow of the Copernicus Center of Utrecht University and sits on multiple director boards including Transparency International Cambodia.

Her research interests lie in the “4 inviolate principles”: food security, water security, energy security and social “health” security with her current research focusing on the futures of Food, Agriculture and Climate Change within the ASEAN Member States (AMS). She specially looks at decarbonization pathways of the food systems. 

Herman Brouwer is a specialist on multi-stakeholder collaboration in agriculture, food and nature, working with Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation at Wageningen University & Research. His responsibilities include the overall delivery of the Foresight4Food Initiative, specifically focusing on the support of in-country scenario and foresight processes as a part of the FoSTr programme.

Herman has worked in international agriculture development for over 25 years in Asia, Africa, and Europe and is an International Associate with Collaborative Decision Resources Associates in Boulder, USA. He combines an interest in food system governance and systems methodologies with his experience as a facilitator.

Lorenzo Giovanni Bellu is the Team Leader and Senior Economist at FAO Global Perspectives Studies Team. He has a PhD in Economic Policy Università Cattolica Milan, Italy.

His key areas of expertise include global and country-level development processes and related implications for food and agriculture, socio-economic and environmental impact assessment of policies; policy impact analysis by means of Computable General Equilibrium (CGE), and other quantitative analysis tools.

His thematic areas of interest comprise the analysis of cross-country interdependencies and contributions and limits of agricultural development and agricultural policies for poverty reduction and food security in the changing global environment.

Mario Herrero is a professor of sustainable food systems and global change in the Department of Global Development and a Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences. At Cornell Atkinson, he serves as a Cornell Atkinson Scholar.

His research focuses on increasing the sustainability of food systems for the benefit of humans and ecosystems. He works in the areas of sustainable intensification of agriculture, climate mitigation and adaptation, livestock systems, and healthy and sustainable diets.

Professor Herrero is a regular contributor to important global initiatives at the heart of the sustainability of global food systems, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Lancet Commission on Obesity and the EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems. He has worked extensively in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Before joining Cornell, he was Chief Scientist of Sustainability, for Australia’s National Science Agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).

Professor Herrero has published more than 170 peer-reviewed publications and over 300 publications in his areas of expertise. He is currently on the editorial boards of The Lancet Planetary Health, Agricultural Systems, Global Food Security, Agriculture and Food Security, Tropical Grasslands, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, and has been a guest editor for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal (PNAS).

Professor Herrero is a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, an Associate Fellow of Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and an Honorary Professor of Agriculture and Food Innovation at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Dr. Irene Annor-Frempong is the Director for Research and Innovation at ‘The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa’ (FARA). By training, she is an Animal Scientist with a strong focus on Research Methodology, with over 20 years of experience as a research scientist, manager and educationist. Prior to FARA, she worked at research institutes including FAP Research Station, Rekenholtz- Zurich in Switzerland and at the IVO, Zeist in the Netherlands. She also worked as Senior lecturer and coordinator of research at universities and other tertiary education institutions in Ghana, Nigeria and Lesotho.

In FARA, Dr. Annor-Frempong has led the development and coordination of continent-wide programs including the programs on Strengthening the Capacity of Agricultural Research and Development for Africa (SCARDA) and the Universities, Business Research in Agricultural Innovation (UniBRAIN) as well as the Africa Human Capital for Science, Technology and Agri-preneurship for Food security (AHCSTAFF) programme. She serves on a number of Boards and Steering Committees of continent-wide and global initiatives including the World Bank Africa Centres of Excellence (ACE) program and is a member of a number of professional bodies with several peer-reviewed papers in reputed journals to her credit. She served on the Technical Committee of the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) and the Consultative Advisory Group on Partnership for Skills in Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology (PASET). 

As Director of Research and Innovation, she currently leads the strategic orientation for research and innovation of FARA and the operationalization of the Science Agenda for Agriculture in Africa (S3A), the underpinning continental framework for addressing the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Programme (CAADP) goal of increasing productivity and the STI Strategy (STISA) priority one on reducing hunger and food insecurity in African countries. Dr. Annor-Frempong obtained her PhD from the Veterinary School, University of Bristol, UK and holds an MSc in Animal Production Science from Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands. She graduated with a BSc. (Hons) in Agriculture and holds a Diploma in Education, both from University of Cape Coast, Ghana.

Mellissa Wood has 30 years’ experience in leading and providing scientific and strategic advice on food, land and water systems, sustainable development, resource and environmental management and public policy. She has held senior leadership positions with the Australian Government and internationally, including UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and CGIAR. Her expertise includes Centre, Agency and Board governance, food and nutrition security, conservation and natural research management, sustainable development, agri-food systems research, biodiversity and program development across Australia, African and SE Asian countries.

She has strong domestic and international public sector governance experience, including retired General Manager, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), Australian representative on CGIAR System Council and CGIAR System Management Board and Chair Asia Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutes (APAARI). She was Director, Global Crop Diversity Trust in Rome developing a global strategy for the biodiversity conservation for plant genetic resources and spent 15 years at the Bureau of Rural Sciences, Federal Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries providing scientific advice to support natural resource management decision-making.

Ms Wood is currently Chair, Victorian Environmental Assessment Council (VEAC), Visiting Scientist CSIRO, Food Systems and Global Change, Expert Evaluator AGFUND and Independent Advisor University of Queensland. She also holds positions on international Steering Committees and boards.

Ms Wood holds a Master of Public Policy (Development Policy) from Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD) and has a Bachelor of Science (Resource and Environmental Management) from the Australian National University.