Marianne Grosclaude is currently the Acting Director of the World Bank Group Department of Farming and Agribusiness. She is the Manager for Farming and Agribusiness, Policy & Regulations. She has worked for the World Bank for the past 25 years in technical and managerial roles, across several regions including the Middle East and North Africa, West and Central Africa, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean and East Asia and the Pacific. Her work has focused on agricultural and food policies, agricultural trade policies and regional integration, inclusive agricultural value-chain development, and the nexus between agriculture, environment, and climate change. Ms. Grosclaude is an agricultural economist by background. She speaks French, English, Portuguese and Spanish.