Ousmane Badiane is the Director for Africa at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), based in Washington, D.C. He oversees the Institute’s regional offices for West and Centra
l Africa in Dakar, Senegal, and for Eastern and Southern Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He received a Master’s Degree and PhD in agricultural economics from the University of Kiel in Germany. His awards include being selected as a 2015 Yara Prize Laureate, a Doctoral Degree Honoris Causa from the University of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa and induction as Distinguished Fellow of the African Association of Agricultural Economics.Eva Krampe is an agricultural sector expert at the European Investment Bank. She studied agricultural economics and earned a PhD in agricultural economics at the University of Kiel. Her main areas of specialization are Africa’s Agricultural Policy, Applied Political Economy and Economic Analysis of Agricultural Investment Projects.