Our Team

Geoff Dahl

Director
Harriet B. Weeks Professor; Past President, American Dairy Science Association

Saskia Hendrickx

Associate Director

Andrea Bohn

Project Manager

Gbola Adesogan

Director for Strategic Partnerships
Professor of Ruminant Nutrition
Director, Food Systems Institute

Emily Griffith

Research Administration Manager

Erica Odera

Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist
Associate Scientist

Ana Ugalde-Brenes

Project Coordinator

Nicole Monval

Fiscal Assistant III

Billy Field

Fiscal Assistant II

Jacqueline Raes

Administrative Support Assistant I

Area of Inquiry Leaders

Sarah McKune

Co-Lead, Human Health, Food Safety, Diets & Nutrition
Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Global Health

Arie Hendrik Havelaar

Co-Lead, Human Health, Food Safety, Diets & Nutrition
Professor, Emerging Pathogens Institute, and Department of Animal Sciences

Gbola Adesogan

Co-Lead, Livestock Production & Disease Management
Director, Food Systems Institute

Jorge A. Hernández

Co-Lead, Livestock Production & Disease Management
Professor, Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences

Conner Mullally

Lead, Markets & Innovation Translation
Assistant Professor, Food and Resource Economics

Cross-Cutting Theme Leaders

Nargiza Ludgate

Lead, Local Capacity Development
Research Assistant Scientist
Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department

Kathleen Colverson

Lead, Gender & Youth
Associate Research Scientist, Animal Sciences

Renata Serra

Lead, Enabling Environment
Instructional Professor, Center for African Studies

Sebastian Galindo

Technical Monitoring and Evaluation Supervisor
Research Associate Professor, Dept. of Agricultural Education & Communication

Greg Kiker

Lead, Future Livestock Systems & Resilience
Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Coordinators

Isidore Gnanda

Coordinator

Felix Ngamije

Coordinator

Moctar Karimou

Coordinator

Padmakumar Varijakshapanicker

Coordinator

Zeleke Mekuriaw

Coordinator

External Advisory Committee

Michael Jacobs

Independent Consultant

Donald Nkrumah

Sponsoring Organization Representative
Senior Program Officer, Animal Nutrition
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Joyce Turk

Independent Consultant
Retired Senior Livestock Advisor, USAID Bureau of Food Security

Ms. Ladd

Senior Food Systems Advisor
Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, USAID

Tyrell Kahan

Agreement Officer Representative
Livestock Advisor, USAID
Livestock Systems Innovation Lab’s Activity Manager

Iain Wright

Deputy Director General, Research
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Rob Readnour

Managing Director
Mountain Group Partners

Internal Advisory Committee

Samira H. Daroub

Professor and Center Director
Department of Soil, Water, and Ecosystem Sciences, UF

Marta L. Wayne

Dean, and Associate Provost
International Center, UF

Glen Morris, Jr.

Director
Emerging Pathogens Institute, UF

Terry E. Moore

Director of Research Administration
Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, UF