Brussels, Belgium

Tuesday, November 19, 2024
14:00 - 17:00 (CET)

On November 19 we will have a in-person workshop focusing on “Markets outlook – what the numbers say”.

The first panel will set the scene, with Tassos Haniotis (ForumforAg Adviser on Sustainable Productivity), John Baffes (World Bank) and Petr Havlik (IIASA) focusing on respectively on “The blissful linearity of market outlook and the nonlinear nature of their uncertain prospects”, “Food inflation: Is this time different?” and “Can we have the fuel and eat it? Land use pressures and sustainability questions”. The second panel will focus on the challenges stemming from the previous presentations and their policy relevance.

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Confirmed speakers (in alphabetical order)

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John Baffes

Senior Agriculture Economist, Development Economics Prospects Group, World Bank

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Senior Agriculture Economist, Development Economics Prospects Group, World Bank

John Baffes is Senior Economist at the World Bank’s Prospects Group where he leads the World Bank’s commodity price forecasting process and oversees the management of the commodity price database. With a rich background in various units within the World Bank, including Latin America, South Asia, East Africa, Evaluation, and Research, John brings a diverse perspective to his work environment. His contributions extend beyond the confines of the World Bank, with numerous chapters and articles published in academic journals covering economic development, agricultural economics, resource economics, and applied econometrics. John also teaches an executive MBA course on Applied Econometrics for Commodity Markets. Prior to his academic pursuits, John gained invaluable experience managing a commodity trading company, solidifying his practical understanding of commodity market dynamics. John holds degrees in Economics from the University of Athens, Greece (BS), Agricultural Economics from the University of Georgia, U.S. (MS), and Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Maryland, U.S. (Ph.D.).

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Pierre Bascou

Director for Markets and acting Deputy Director-General for Markets and International - DG Agriculture and...

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Director for Markets and acting Deputy Director-General for Markets and International - DG Agriculture and Rural Development - European Commission

Pierre Bascou is currently Director for Markets and acting Deputy Director-General for Markets and International in the Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission. In these roles, Pierre oversees the promotion and expansion of Europe’s trade in agriculture and food and the strengthening of the European Union’s international cooperation to improve food security and the sustainability of the EU agricultural policy. Pierre is also responsible for promoting the competitiveness, resilience and diversity of the agricultural sector in the EU to ensure the long-term food security as part of a sustainable food system.

Doctor in Agricultural Economics (1989; Imperial College of London, UK) and agronomic engineer (1986; ESA Toulouse, FR), Pierre spent most of his career working for the European Commission in the Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI).

Before being appointed as Director for Markets in 2022 and acting Director-General for International and Markets in 2023, Pierre was previously Director in charge of sustainability (DG AGRI; 2014 to 2022). Between 2010 and 2014 he was Head of the Unit responsible for Agricultural Policy Analysis and Perspectives. From 2003 until 2009 Pierre was heading the Unit in charge of the economic analysis of EU agriculture for the conception, the management and the evaluation of the Common Agricultural Policy.

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Joseph W. Glauber

Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

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Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Joe Glauber is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, DC and until January 2024 served as interim Secretary of the Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS). He also holds appointments at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the American Enterprise Institute. Prior to joining IFPRI, Glauber spent over 30 years at the US Department of Agriculture, including as Chief Economist from 2008 to 2014. From 2007-2009, Glauber was the Special Doha Agricultural Envoy at the office of the U.S. Trade Representative where he served as chief agricultural negotiator in the Doha talks. He is the author of numerous studies on agricultural insurance, trade policy and U.S. farm policy.

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Tassos Haniotis

Sustainable Productivity Adviser, Forum for the Future of Agriculture

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Sustainable Productivity Adviser, Forum for the Future of Agriculture

Tassos Haniotis recently retired, after a 33-year career in the Commission, as the Director of Strategy, Simplification and Policy Analysis in the Directorate General for Agriculture of the European Commission. Tassos is Sustainable Productivity Adviser for the Forum for the Future of Agriculture and a Senior Guest Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. He previously held posts as Head of Unit in the Agricultural Policy Analysis and Perspectives unit and the Agricultural Trade Policy Analysis unit in the same Directorate General, as Member and subsequently Deputy Head of the Cabinet of former European Commissioner for Agriculture Franz Fischler (with respective responsibilities the preparation of the 2003 reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, and the agricultural chapter of the Doha WTO Round and the EU-Mercosur negotiations), and as the Agricultural Counsellor of the European Commission’s Delegation in the United States. He holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Agricultural Economics from the University of Georgia, USA, and a B.A. in Economics from the Athens University of Economics and Business, in his native Greece. Before joining the European Commission, he spent six months as a visiting Fellow at the Centre for European Agricultural Studies, Wye College, University of London, focusing on EU-US agricultural trade relations in the Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations. He hold a Honorary Doctorate degree from the University of Thessaloniki. Active in the ag research community, he is a member of the International and European Associations of Ag Economics, the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium, and the EU Nitrogen Expert Panel.
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Lee Ann Jackson

Head of Division, Agro-food Trade and Markets, OECD

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Head of Division, Agro-food Trade and Markets, OECD

Lee Ann Jackson is an experienced operational and strategic leader committed to working on key global issues with proven record of management in multi-cultural environments. Creative problem-solver, curious about alternative views and comfortable mediating conflict. Dynamic speaker and moderator in international dialogues. Dedicated international professional passionate about organizational learning and delivering a positive impact.

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David Laborde

Director for Agrifood Economics division, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations

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Director for Agrifood Economics division, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations

David Laborde is the Director for Agrifood Economics division at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. He has been leading the division since February 2023. In this role, he supervises a number of flagship publications, such as the State of Food Security and Nutrition (SOFI) or the State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) and leads the work of the division on policy monitoring, policy reform, and realignment of incentives to support agrifood system transformation. He also provides leadership on two priority areas for the institution: resilience and bioeconomy.

Before joining FAO, David Laborde worked at the International Food Policy Research Institute of the CGIAR in Washington D.C. for 16 years as part of the Markets, Trade, and Institution Division. He led the research theme on Macroeconomics and Trade and was also a co-director of the Ceres2030 project.
David Laborde’s research interests include food security and nutrition, especially in the context of globalization and climate change. He has worked extensively on measuring and modelling domestic and border farm and food policies in a general equilibrium context, as well as on reforms of these policies facing environmental (climate change, biofuels, sustainability) and social (poverty) issues. Since 2015, he has been focusing on costing the roadmap to achieving SDG2 in a globalized context while considering the role of goods, capital, and migration flows while delivering on key climate actions.

David Laborde has developed a number of partial equilibrium models, in particular, the MIRAGE and MIRAGRODEP models, and databases such as MAcMapHS6 on tariffs as well as TASTE software. He has been a contributor to the GAP database and a GTAP research fellow since 2005. For his contributions, he received the Alan Powell award in 2018.

Throughout his career, David Laborde has published extensively, having more than 150 publications, and edited a number of books and high-level policy reports.

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Angelo Di Mambro

Agrifood editor at Euractiv

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Agrifood editor at Euractiv

Angelo Di Mambro is a journalist specialised in EU policies about environment, climate, agriculture, food and health. Angelo joined Euractiv in January 2024 as editor for EU agriculture and food policies. Based in Brussels since 2011, he has authored publications on the global challenges facing agriculture, the Common Agricultural Policy, innovation in agriculture and emerging plant pests, gave presentations on food risk communication, and coordinated multimedia projects for news organisations and international scientific consortia. In 2019-23, he covered the EU Green Deal for ANSA, Italy's leading news agency.

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Jurgen Tack

Secretary General, European Landowners' Organization

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Secretary General, European Landowners' Organization

Jurgen Tack studied biology (marine ecology) at Brussels Free University where he also obtained his PhD in Sciences. Within the Framework of the Kenya Belgium Project in Marine Sciences (Coastal Farms Kenya) he developed a number of oyster farms along the Kenyan coast.

In 2000 he joined the team of the Belgian Biodiversity Platform (Belgian Science Policy Office) where he was responsible for European and international science policy in the field of biodiversity and biodiversity related research. In 2007 he became the CEO of the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (a research organization under the umbrella of the Flemish Authority). In 2015 he became Secretary-General of the National Science Foundation (Flanders). In 2016 he took the position of Scientific Director at the European Landowners’ Organization (ELO), CEO at Landelijk Vlaanderen (Flemish Landowners’ Organisation) and CEO of the Aanspreekpunt Privaat Beheer Natuur en Bos (an advisory organ for private landowners on the management of nature and forest).

In 2023 he became Secretary-General of the European Landowners Organisation (ELO). He coordinates several EU projects on private land conservation. On behalf of ELO he chairs the European Commission’s Large Carnivore Platform and acts as expert for the EU Biodiversity Platform and the EU Expert Group on Cultural Heritage.

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Mark Titterington

Co-Founder & Director, Forum for the Future of Agriculture

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Co-Founder & Director, Forum for the Future of Agriculture

Mark has enjoyed a long career in the agri-food sector having previously worked at the United Nations and for Syngenta where he held a number of senior leadership positions in corporate affairs and business sustainability in the EAME region and globally. After leaving Syngenta in 2017, Mark became Chief Executive of EngineeringUK, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to inspiring and nurturing STEM skills in young people. Mark later became Head of Marketing and Public Affairs for Indigo Agriculture Europe GmbH. Mark is a co-founder and senior adviser to the Forum for the Future of Agriculture and a Senior Fellow at the Transatlantic Policy Network.
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Ann Tutwiler

Chair of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and Senior Fellow at Meridian Institute

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Chair of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and Senior Fellow at Meridian Institute

Ann Tutwiler is the Chair of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and a member of the board of CABI. In addition, she is a Senior Fellow at Meridian Institute and Chair of the Advisory Council for the Food and Agriculture Benchmark at the World Benchmarking Alliance. Previously, Ann chaired the Water, Land and Ecosystems Research Program of the CGIAR as well as the Access to Seeds Foundation Supervisory Board.

Ann is also a former Director General of Bioversity International and served as Deputy Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, Italy. She was also an adviser to the U.S. Secretary for Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, where she worked to develop and implement Feed the Future, during the Obama Administration.

Agenda

Nov 19, 2024

14:00 - 17:00 (CET)

13:30 - 14:00 (CET)

Arrival of participants

14:00 - 14:10 (CET)

Introduction

  • Mark Titterington, Co-founder & Director, Forum for the Future of Agriculture

14:10 - 15:30 (CET)

Setting the scene

The blissful linearity of market outlook and the nonlinear nature of their uncertain prospects

  • Tassos Haniotis, Special Advisor for Sustainable Productivity, Forum for the Future of Agriculture

Food inflation: Is this time different?

  • John Baffes, Senior Agriculture Economist, Development Economics Prospects Group, World Bank

Can we have the fuel and eat it? Land use pressures and sustainability questions

  • Petr Havlik, Program Director, International Institute for Applied Systems (IIASA)

 Followed by Q&A session

Moderator

  • Angelo di Mambro, Agrifood editor at Euractiv

 

15:30 - 16:45 (CET)

What does all this mean for policies?

Panel discussion

  • Lee Ann Jackson, Head of the Agro-food Trade and Markets Division in the OECD’s Trade and Agriculture Directorate
  • Joseph Glauber, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI, CGIAR
  • Ann Tutwiler, Chair of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and Senior Fellow at Meridian Institute
  • David Laborde, Director for Agrifood Economics division, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations
  • Pierre Bascou, Director for Markets and acting Deputy Director-General for Markets and International – DG Agriculture and Rural Development – European Commission

Followed by Q&A session

Moderator

  • Angelo di Mambro, Agrifood editor at Euractiv

16:45 - 17:00 (CET)

Conclusions and closing

Closing remarks

  • Jurgen Tack, ELO Secretary General

16:50 - 17:00 (CET)

Concluding remarks

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