The Alliance Scientists

The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT delivers research-based solutions that harness agricultural biodiversity and sustainably transform food systems to improve people’s lives. To do so, the Alliance and its scientist community works with local, national and multinational partners across Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and Africa, and with the public and private sectors.
We encourage you to engage with our community of scientists and researchers here and on other professional platforms.
Meet Our Directors

Mark Lundy
Director, Food Environment and Consumer Behavior
Lulseged Desta
Director, Multifunctional Landscape
Ana Maria Loboguerrero
Director, Climate Action
Carlo Fadda
Director, Agrobiodiversity
Jacob van Etten
Director, Digital Inclusion
Joe Tohme
Managing Director, Americas, and Director, Crops for nutrition and health
Marlène Elias
Director, Gender and Inclusion
Elisabetta Gotor
Director Land Resource Economics Unit and Program Leader ∙ Performance, Innovation and Strategic Analysis for Impact (PISA4)
David Slane
Senior Manager and Chief of Party, Business Acceleration for Youth Project, Country Representative for Malawi
Debbie Pierce
Research Associate
Deborah Nabuuma
Associate Scientist
Degefie Tibebe
Spatial Analyst
Deissy Martínez-Barón
Regional Lead, Climate Action in Latin America and the Caribbean
Dejene K. Mengistu
Scientist
Dessalegn Molla Ketema
Postdoctoral Fellow-Social Scientist, Country Representative for Ethiopia
Diana Carolina Arias Sinisterra
Research Associate
Diana Carolina Lopera
Senior Research Associate
Diana Giraldo Mendez
Research Fellow
Diana Gutierrez
Senior Research Associate