Our Team

Geoff Dahl

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

Andrea Bohn

Project Manager

Alicia Martinez

Research Coordinator III

Saskia Hendrickx

Associate Director

Ana Ugalde-Brenes

Project Coordinator

Billy Field

Fiscal Assistant II

Gbola Adesogan

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

Erica Odera

Monitoring & Evaluation
Associate Scientist

Nicole Monval

Fiscal Assistant III

Area of Inquiry Leaders

Gbola Adesogan

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

Sarah McKune

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

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

Arie Hendrik Havelaar

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

Cross-Cutting Theme Leaders

Kathleen Colverson

Lead, Gender & Youth
Associate Research Scientist, Animal Sciences

Renata Serra

Lead, Enabling Environment
Senior Lecturer, Center for African Studies

Greg Kiker

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

Sebastian Galindo

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

Nargiza Ludgate

Lead, Local Capacity Development
Assistant Scholar, Office for Global Research Engagement, International Center

Coordinators

Isidore Gnanda

Coordinator
Burkina Faso

Felix Ngamije

Coordinator
Rwanda

Moctar Karimou

Coordinator
Niger

Padmakumar Varijakshapanicker

Coordinator
Nepal

Zeleke Mekuriaw

Coordinator
Ethiopia

Nouhoun Zampaligre

Coordinator
EQUIP-FEED Project, Burkina Faso

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

External Advisory Committee

Michael Jacobs

Independent Consultant

Harinder Makkar

Independent Consultant
Former Senior Animal Production Officer, FAO

Kristen MacNaughtan

Sponsoring Organization Representative
Program Officer
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