World Agriculture Forum - Innovating for Sustainable Future

Johan Swinnen

WAF Board Member

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.