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 Tamene Desta
Director, Multifunctional Landscape
Julian Ramirez-Villegas
Director (a.i.), Climate Action, and Principal Scientist on Climate Impacts
Carlo Fadda
Director, Agrobiodiversity
Jacob van Etten
Director, Digital Inclusion
María Fernanda Álvarez
Director, Crops for Nutrition and Health, and Program Leader, Rice Breeding and Genetics
Marlène Elias
Director, Gender and Inclusion
Elisabetta Gotor
Director Land Resource Economics Unit and Program Leader ∙ Performance, Innovation and Strategic Analysis for Impact (PISA4)
Angelica Carbonell Barlis
Research Fellow
Aniruddha Ghosh
Senior Scientist
Anna Belli
Specialist
Anna Muller
Scientist, Team Lead Inclusive Design and User Research
Anne Rietveld
Scientist II
Anton Eitzinger
Thematic Lead Digital Tools, Climate Action
Arely Valdivia Araica
Research Associate
Armando Martinez-Valle
Specialist, Climate Actgion
Ashleigh Basel
Data Scientist
Athanasios Petsakos
Scientist
Augusto Castro-Nunez
Senior Scientist Low-Emissions Food Systems