Ilaria Tedesco is an economist with over 13 years of experience in agriculture and international development in UN institutions (Food and Agriculture Organization – FAO, International Fund for Agricultural Development – IFAD) and university (Natural Resources Institute of the University of Greenwich). Her experience has been mostly focused on cost-benefit and policy impact analyses, agricultural value chains, agricultural risk management and capacity building activities in Paraguay, Nigeria, Turkey, Oman, Mauritius, Kenya, Mozambique, Uganda, Liberia, Senegal, Ethiopia, Niger and Zambia. She is currently Senior Technical Advisor for the Platform for Agricultural Risk Management (PARM) at IFAD. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Tor Vergata (Rome, Italy).