Viviana Maria Eugenia Perego is a Senior Economist at the World Bank, where she works on themes related to agriculture and food systems, inclusive rural livelihoods, and competitiveness. Her current projects focus on food security, market access for smallholder farmers, technology adoption, agrologistics, and food systems’ sustainability and resilience to climate change. Viviana holds a DPhil (PhD) degree in Economics from the University of Oxford, where she graduated with a thesis on the drivers of development in open economies. Prior to joining the World Bank, she collaborated with institutions such as the ILO, Unicef, and the Bank of Italy, as well as research centers such as the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford