DEBISI ARABA, Ph.D 

Dr. Debisi Araba is a public policy, innovation and strategy specialist, focused on the future of food, the environment, and entrepreneurship. He is a Senior Consultant with the African Development Bank on Agriculture and Food Systems. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London. He also serves on the Malabo Montpellier Panel of experts – an eminent group of global experts – working together to enhance African and European government support of national and regional agricultural development and food security priorities in Africa. Previously, he led the Africa Green Revolution Forum (now known as the Africa Food Systems Forum) as the Managing Director, and was also the Africa Region Director at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), a member of the CGIAR, the consortium on international agriculture research. He has also served as the Senior Technical Adviser on Environmental Policy to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development in Nigeria. 

 

Debisi has a Doctorate from the Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, a Master's degree in Public Administration from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, a Master's in Clean Technology from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne and a Bachelor's degree in Physical Geography from the University of Ibadan.