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Dr. Luca Alinovi is the newly appointed Executive Director of the Global Resilience Partnership. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, he will focus on convening local, regional, and international actors across a range of sectors, and bringing together the private sector with traditional actors to tackle resilience challenges. In addition to his extensive experience at the FAO, he has held roles at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has published a number of journal articles. He has a PhD in Agricultural and Natural Resources Economics and a Laurea in tropical and sub-tropical agriculture, both from the University of Florence.
Previously, he served as the Representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in Kenya, the Eastern Africa Resilience Hub Director, and the Global Deputy Resilience Coordinator for FAO. Dr. Alinovi has led and managed programs, and led research on food security and agriculture policy analysis in protracted crises for the last 15 years, both in FAO headquarters and Eastern and Western African countries. He has worked as a food security analyst and agricultural economist for FAO, the Italian Development Cooperation, private sector companies and the University of Florence.