Dmytro Prykhodko is a Senior Economist at the FAO Investment Centre, specializing in supporting investment projects, grain markets and trade in Europe, Central Asia ECA, and the Middle East and North Africa MENA. With over 25 years of experience and a background in agricultural economics, he has worked extensively with USDA, a private sector grain trader and then with FAO’s Investment Centre in major grain producing, exporting and importing countries, including Ukraine, Russia, Serbia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Egypt and, most recently in Tunisia. He works closely with FAO’s investment partners from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, World Bank and others to lead public-private policy dialogues on specific sector grain sector issues to de-risk investment in grain trade and infrastructure development.