Rafael Flor is a Senior Program Officer in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Agricultural Development team. He has 20 years of progressive work experience in international development. He has held positions with the Rockefeller Foundation, the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Armajaro Trading (now Ecom Trading), the MDG Centre | West & Central Africa, the United Nations Development Programme, and Escuela Agricola Panamericana, Zamorano. Mr. Flor has served as a member of the World Food Programme’s Working Group on Productive Safety Nets, the United Nations Millennium Project Task Force on Hunger, Peer Reviewer of the 2006 Environmental Performance Index, and the Danish Think Tank on Prevention of Food Loss and Waste’s Advisory Panel. He holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Engineering from Escuela Agrícola Panamerica, Zamorano