Professional experience:

• Higher education/research
• Private sector consulting/training
• Development consulting
• Managing complex policy dialogues/interventions

25 years of international consulting - project, people, and resource management

10+ years as Team Leader delivering complex, multi-stakeholder, multi-year projects

Achievements

1.     Inclusive and transparent governance and regulatory frameworks for policy coherence and transformation enhanced by developing

• opportunities for policy change based on food systems approach
• cooperation and competence across governance levels
• participation of those with less power and resources
• public-private-partnerships to drive sustainable production/SPS control in food value chains
• SPS control and regulatory framework using the farm-to-fork approach
• assessment and management of food safety risks

2.   Supported regional governments and private sector in transitioning to food production that safeguards environment, climate, and consumer health by:

• reducing the use of, and dependency on, agrochemicals 
• moving agriculture towards sustainable practices
• reducing food waste
• improving product traceability
• building hygiene control by food operators
• maintaining the nutritional value of food

3.     Contributed to establishing socially and economically just food systems by

• bridging the gap between producers and consumers - alternative agri-business models
• empowering small-scale farmers and SMEs to meet market requirements and adopt sustainable practices

4.     Created user-friendly communication tools

5.     Supported EU Delegations by

• Designing and managing policy interventions
• Communicating values and policies
• Supporting/coordinating external expertise - short-term experts, resource persons/speakers, facilitation of meetings, research support

6.     Practical knowledge transfer

• undergraduate lectures
• private sector client-focused in-house and public training
• training of local and national government officers

7.     Research focused on delivering solutions to empower food systems to change

Applied research

• Technical - sustainable food systems 
• Market science - modelling (i) consumer food selection behaviour; (ii) innovation strategies by companies

Participatory action research to strengthen

• sago industry sustainability
• small-scale agro-processing in China, the Philippines and Vietnam 
• a Thai research unit
• post-harvest management and reduce losses in Vietnam’s grain sector

Research for development

• promote inclusion of SMEs in China, the Philippines