Gideon Kruseman

I'm a development economist by training, through work on a variety of subjects such as water management, soil degradation and non-point source pollution versed in environmental and ecological economics, and in complex models and data analysis.

Quick out-of-the-box thinker and learner with a flexible attitude. I adapt rapidly to new circumstances. I have an easy-going personality, not a bore. I'm a team player using rigorous scientific methods as a means not an end to solve problems.

I have extensive experience in providing policy briefs where research results are summarized for a non-academic audience and in explaining in layman terms research results for diverse audiences such as policy makers, boards of directors and the media.

I have worked in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary teams building bridges between sciences. I am comfortable in the role of a generalizing-specialist or a specializing-generalist.
Over the past years the focus of my work has been on foresight, ex-ante impact assessment and targeting. Recently in the One CGIAR initiative on Foresight and Metrics to Accelerate Food, Land and Water Systems Transformation as WP3 leader. The focus of this work package is to enance the access, transparency and use of foresight data and metrics, models and tools, and other foresight products and publications for the radical democratization of foresight analysis to address the pressing issues facing agri-food systems in low and lower middle-income countries.
As of January 2023 with the Alliance Bioversity & CIAT applying my skills to better target research in order to meet the sustainable development goals of ending hunger and poverty through social inclusive agricultural investments and policy change.

I enjoy diving into complex issues and developing models and creative methodologies for optimization and data analysis especially using GAMS, AWK, Python and R. I'm a scientist but I swear I'm not boring! Actually I'm quite ambitious. Provide me with a couple of seemingly incompatible data sets and I'll let that data provide useful information. I lead the community of practice on socio-economic data in the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture.

"The comfort zone is a beautiful place but nothing ever grows there"