HLPE-FSN Steering Committee members participate in their individual capacities and not as representatives of any institution.
The experts were appointed by the Bureau of the CFS, following a call for nominations and a proposal by an ad hoc technical selection committee comprised of members of FAO, IFAD, WFP, CGIAR and CSIPM.
Read about the current HLPE-FSN Steering Committee
Mr Bernard Lehmann (Switzerland), Chairperson
Ms Jennifer Clapp (Canada), Vice-Chairperson
Steering Committee members: Ms Olanike Adeyemo (Nigeria); Ms Barbara Burlingame (New Zealand); Mr Ruben Echeverría (Uruguay); Ms Hilal Elver (Türkiye); Mr William Moseley (United States of America); Ms Nitya Rao (India); Ms Elisabetta Recine (Brazil); Mr José María Sumpsi Viñas (Spain); Ms Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann (Japan); Mr Stefan Tangermann (Germany); Ms Shakuntala Thilsted (Trinidad and Tobago); Mr Patrick Webb (United States of America); Mr Iain Wright (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland).
Mr Martin Cole (Australia), Chairperson
Mr Bernard Lehmann (Switzerland), Vice-Chairperson
Steering Committee members: Ms Barbara Burlingame (New-Zealand); Ms Jennifer Clapp (Canada); Mr Mahmoud El Solh (Lebanon); Ms Mária Kadlečíková (Slovakia); Mr Li Xiande (China); Ms Bancy Mbura Mati (Kenya); Mr William Moseley (United States of America); Ms Nitya Rao (India); Mr Thomas Rosswall (Sweden); Mr Daniel Sarpong (Ghana); Mr Kamil Shideed (Iraq); Mr Jose María Sumpsi Viñas (Spain); Ms Shakuntala Thilsted (Trinidad and Tobago).
Mr Patrick Caron (France), Chairperson
Mr Mahmoud El Solh (Lebanon), Vice-Chairperson
Steering Committee members: Mr Martin Cole (Australia); Ms Louise O. Fresco (the Netherlands); Mr Alex Godoy-Faúndez (Chile); Ms Maria Kadlečíková (Slovakia); Ms Eileen Theresa Kennedy (United States of America); Mr Muhammad Khan (Pakistan); Mr Xiande Li (People’s Republic of China); Mr Paul Mapfumo (Zimbabwe); Mr Mohammad Saeid Noori Naeini (Islamic Republic of Iran); Ms Elisabetta Gioconda Iole Giovanna Recine (Brazil); Ms Shiney Varghese (India); Mr Martin Yemefack (Cameroon); Mr Rami Zurayk (Lebanon).
Mr Patrick Caron (France), Chairperson
Ms Carol Kalafatic (USA), Vice-Chairperson
Steering Committee members: Mr Amadou Allahoury (Niger); Mr Patrick Caron (France); Ms Louise Fresco (the Netherlands);Ms Carol Kalafatic (United States of America); Ms Eileen Kennedy (USA); Mr Muhammad Azeem Khan (Pakistan); Mr Bernardo Kliksberg (Argentina); Mr Fangquan Mei (China); Ms Sophia Murphy (Canada); Mr Mohammad Saeid Noori Naeini (Iran); Mr Michel Pimbert (UK); Mr Juan Ángel Rivera Dommarco (Mexico); Ms Magdalena Sepúlveda (Chile); Mr Martin Yemefack (Cameroon); Mr Rami Zurayk (Lebanon).
Mr Per Pinstrup-Andersen (Denmark), Chairperson
Ms Maryam Rahmanian (Iran), Vice-Chairperson
Steering Committee members: Mr Amadou Allahoury (Niger); Ms Marion Guillou (France); Ms Sheryl Hendriks (South Africa); Ms Joanna Hewitt (Australia); Mr Masa Iwanaga (Japan); Ms Carol Kalafatic (United States of America); Mr Bernardo Kliksberg (Argentina); Mr Renato Maluf (Brazil); Ms Sophia Murphy (Canada); Ms Ruth Oniang’o (Kenya); Mr Michel Pimbert (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland); Ms Magdalena Sepúlveda (Chile); Mr Huajun Tang (China).
Mr Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan (India), Chairperson
Ms Maryam Rahmanian (Iran), Vice-Chairperson
Steering Committee members: Ms Catherine Bertini (United States of America), Mr Martin S. Kumar (since 1st July 2011, in replacement of Derek Byerlee, Australia), Mr Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher (Ethiopia), Mr Lawrence Haddad (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Ms Sheryl Lee Hendriks (South Africa), Mr Alain de Janvry (France), Mr Renato Maluf (Brazil), Ms Mona Mehrez Aly (Egypt), Mr Carlos Perez del Castillo (Uruguay), Mr Roelof Rabbinge (Netherlands), Mr Huajun Tang (China), Mr Igor Tikhonovich (Russian Federation), Ms Niracha Wongchinda (Thailand).
Drafting teams act on a project specific basis and are selected to analyse a specific issues. Drafting Teams work in the preparation of the reports in close collaboration with the Steering Committee.
Read about the drafting team working on the upcoming report on inequalities
2021 - Data: Mr Carlo Cafiero (Italy, Team Leader), Ms Maria Blanco (Spain), Mr Michaël Chelle (France), Ms Dilfuza Egamberdieva (Uzbekistan), Ms Rebecca Kanter (United States of America), Mr Stephen Kimani (Kenya), Ms Marian Kjellevold (Norway), Ms Lynnette Neufeld (Canada), Ms Leila Oliveira (Brazil), Mr Christian Schader (Switzerland), Ms Sangeetha Shyam (India).
2020 - Youth: Ms Hannah Wittman (United States of America, Team Leader), Ms Indika Arulingam (Sri Lanka), Mr Jim Leandro Cano (Philippines), Ms Mariaelena Huambachano (Perú), Ms Anna Korzenszky (Hungary), Ms Catherine Mungai (Kenya), Mr Ben White (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Ms Paola Termine (Italy).
2019 - Agroecology and other innovations: Mr Fergus Lloyd Sinclair (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Team Leader), Ms Mary Ann Augustin (Australia), Ms Rachel Bezner-Kerr (Canada), Ms Dilfuza Egamberdieva (Uzbekistan), Ms Oluwole Abiodun Fatunbi (Nigeria), Ms Barbara Gemmill Herren (United States of America, Switzerland), Mr Abid Hussain (Pakistan), Ms Florence Mtambanengwe (Zimbabwe), Mr André Luiz Rodrigues Gonçalves (Brazil), Mr Alexander Wezel (Germany).
2018 - Multistakeholder partnerships: Mr Fergus Lloyd Sinclair (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Team Leader), Ms Mary Ann Augustin (Australia), Ms Rachel Bezner-Kerr (Canada), Ms Dilfuza Egamberdieva (Uzbekistan), Mr Oluwole Abiodun Fatunbi (Nigeria), Ms Barbara Gemmill Herren (United States of America, Switzerland), Mr Abid Hussain (Pakistan), Ms Florence Mtambanengwe (Zimbabwe), Mr André Luiz Rodrigues Gonçalves (Brazil), Mr Alexander Wezel (Germany).
2017 - Sustainable forestry: Mr Terence Sunderland (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Team Leader), Mr Fernande Abanda (Cameroon), Mr Ronnie de Camino Velozo (Chile), Mr Patrick Matakala (Zambia), Mr Peter May (Brazil), Mr Anatoly Petrov (Russia), Ms Bronwen Powell (Canada), Mr Bhaskar Vira (India), Ms Camilla Widmark (Sweden).
2017 - Nutrition and food systems: Ms Jessica Fanzo (United States of America, Team Leader), Ms Mandana Arabi (Iran), Ms Barbara Burlingame (New Zealand), Mr Lawrence Haddad (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Mr Simon Kimenju (Kenya), Ms Gregory Miller (United States of America), Ms Fengying Nie (China), Ms Elisabetta Recine (Brazil), Mr Lluís Serra-Majem (Spain), Ms Dipa Sinha (India).
2016 - Sustainable agricultural development and livestock: Mr Wilfrid Legg (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Team Leader), Mr Khaled Abbas (Algeria), Ms Daniela Alfaro (Uruguay), Mr Botir Dosov (Uzbekistan), Mr Neil Fraser (New Zealand), Ms Delia Grace (Ireland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Mr Robert Habib (France), Ms Claudia Job Schmitt (Brazil), Ms Langa Simela (Zimbabwe), Mr Funing Zhong (China).
2015 - Water: Ms Lyla Mehta (Austria, Team Leader), Mr Oscar Cordeiro-Netto (Brazil), Mr Theib Oweis (Jordan), Ms Claudia Ringler (Germany), Ms Barbara Schreiner (South Africa), Ms Shiney Varghese (India).
2014 - Fisheries and aquaculture: Mr Christophe Béné (France, Team Leader), Ms Gro-Ingunn Hemre (Norway), MS Moenieba Isaacs (South Africa), Mr Vijay Gupta Modadugu (India), Ms Meryl Williams (Australia), Mr Ningsheng Yang (China).
2014 - Food losses and waste: Mr Vishweshwaraiah Prakash (India, Team Leader), Ms Jane Ambuko (Kenya), Mr Walter Belik (Brazil), Mr Jikun Huang (China), Mr Toine Timmermans (the Netherlands).
2013 - Biofuels: John Wilkinson (Brazil, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Team Leader), Ms Suraya Afiff (Indonesia), Mr Miguel Carriquiry (Uruguay), Mr Charles Jumbe (Malawi), Mr Timothy Searchinger (United States of America).
2013- Smallholder agriculture investments: Mr Pierre-Marie Bosc (France, Team Leader), Mr Julio Berdegué (Mexico, Chile), Mr Mamadou Goïta (Mali), Mr Jan Douwe van der Ploeg (Netherlands), Ms Kae Sekine (Japan), Ms Linxiu Zhang (China).
2012 - Climate change: Mr Gerald Nelson (United States of America, Team Leader), Mr Zucong Cai (China), Mr Charles Godfray (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Mr Rashid Hassan (South Africa), Ms Maureen Santos (Brazil), Ms Hema Swaminathan (India).
2012 - Social protection: Mr Stephen Devereux (South Africa, Team Leader), Ms Wenche Barth Eide (Norway), Mr John Hoddinott (Canada), Ms Nora Lustig (Argentina), Mr Kalanidhi Subbarao (India).
2011 - Land tenure: Ms Camilla Toulmin (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Team Leader), Mr Prem Bindraban (Netherlands), Mr Jun Borras (Philippines), Ms Esther Mwangi (Kenya).
2011 - Price volatility: Mr Benoît Daviron (France, Team Leader), Ms Sophia Murphy (Canada), Mr Niama Nango Dembele (Mali), Mr Shahidur Rashid (Bangladesh).
The HLPE-FSN acknowledges the important contribution received from the anonymous peer reviewers on pre-final drafts of the reports: Mohamed Ait-Kadi, Mohamed Ag-Bendech, Tony Allan, Eddie Allison, Ousmane Badiane, Philppe Baret, Frederic Baudron, Anne Bellows, Guillaume Benoît, Konrad Biesalski, Alain Billand, David Boerma, Nicolas Bricas, Jonathan Brooks, Jennifer Clapp, Joanne Daly, Benoît Dedieu, Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla, Adam Drewnowski, Hilal Elver, Roberto I Escalante, Shenggen Fan, Harriet Friedmann, Aulo Gelli, Maggie Gill, Vincent Gitz, Charles Godfray, Manuel Guariguata, Dana Gunders, Rosario Bella Guzman, Étienne Hainzelin, Lawrence Haddad, Peter Hazell, Sheryl Hendriks, Hans Herren, Naomi Hossain, Jikun Huang, Bernard Hubert, Danny Hunter, John L Innes, Abdulai Jalloh, Andrew Jones, Nadim Khouri, Lisa Kitinoja, Martin Kropff, Harriet Kuhnlein, Martin Kumar, Carlo La Vecchia, Denis Lairon, Philippe Lecomte, Wilfrid Legg, Roberto Lenton, Tom Lines, John Lynam, Andrew MacMillan, Renato Maluf, William Masters, Nora McKeon, Françoise Médale, Xavier Medina, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Douglas Merrey, Merlet Michel, Erik Millstone, Richard Mkandawire, Joao Monticelli, Sophia Murphy, Reema Nanavaty, Nandini Nayak, Alan Nicol, Rosalinda Ofreneo, Nic Oliver, Willis Oluoch-Kosura, Maria Emilia Pacheco, Christine Padoch, John Parrotta, Biraj Patnaik, Martin Pineiro, Michel Pimbert, Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Jules Pretty, Agnes Quisumbing, Rudy Rabbinge, Maryam Rahmanian, Nitya Rao, Walter Rossing, Mirjam Ros-Tonen, Dominic Rowland, Maruja Angelica Salas, Sara Scherr, Sergio Schneider, Ian Scoones, Chandrika Sharma, Kamel Shideed, Shigeo Shiki, Luo Shiming, Simbarashe Simba Sibanda, Mahmoud Solh, Henning Steinfeld, Barbara Stocking, Dmitry Strebkov, Tristam Stuart, William Sutherland, Monkombu Sambasiva Swaminathan, Boyd Swinburn, Albert Tacon, Peter Timmer, Pablo Tittonell, Kunio Tsubota, Barbara van Koppen, Orlando Vega, Joachim von Braun, Graham von Maltitz, Alain Vidal, Veikila Vuki, Vijay Shankar Vyas, Tom Wakeford, Steve Wiggins, Michael Windfuhr, Niracha Wongchinda, Jim Woodhill, Olivia Yambi, Agneta Yngve, Linxiu Zhang, David Zilberman.
Finally, the HLPE-FSN warmly thanks all the participants having contributed with very valuable inputs and comments to the open electronic consultations, first on a proposed scope of the study, and second, on an advanced draft (V0) of all the reports.
