Zacharey Carmichael is a Senior Economist in the World Bank’s Agriculture and Food Global Practice. He serves as the technical coordinator for food security crises for the IDA Crisis Response Window Early Response Financing – a US$1 billion financing modality for countries to scale up early action to emerging food and nutrition security crises. He serves as a member of the Secretariat for the Global Alliance for Food Security, is a member of the Coordination Unit for the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program, and he supports the World Bank’s engagement as part of the Global Network Against Food Crises. Zacharey specializes in food security crisis risk management, including strategic capacity building in food security crisis preparedness where he leads a global team supporting the development of Preparedness Plans for Food and Nutrition Security Crises across 25 countries. He previously served in the World Bank’s Fragility, Conflict, and Violence Global Theme where he led pilot efforts under the Famine Action Mechanism, supported the design and implementation of the Bank’s strategy on fragility, conflict and violence, served as a core member of the Global Crisis Risk Platform, and helped design and launch the Lebanon Financing Facility, among other efforts. Zacharey has also worked as part of the Capital Markets Group in the World Bank’s Treasury where he supported new funding and derivatives transactions across IBRD and IDA.