Loraine Ronchi is the World Bank Group’s Global lead for Science, Knowledge and Innovation in Agriculture and Food.
In this role, Loraine leads the effort to scale science and innovation into the WBG’s portfolio and into the evidence bases of policy dialogue. She comes to this role directly from a special assignment with the CGIAR, mandated by senior management to identify obstacles and solutions to more effective partnerships in science and innovation and greater integration of knowledge into WBG work with its Clients. Her technical focus was on climate action and nature, whilst building scaling strategies for WBG knowledge partnerships more widely. Returning to the WBG as Global Lead, Loraine is to take forward these strategies and recommendations within the framework of the WBG’s new Knowledge Compact.