Victor Ajieroh

Victor Ajieroh, PhD Senior Food Systems & Nutrition Specialist Victor Ajieroh is a senior expert and leader with over 25 years of progressive cross-sectoral experience in food systems, public health and nutrition. He has consulted and been in the employment of several organizations such as the Gates Foundation, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Unilever, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, the International Agriculture Program of the University of Missouri, the World Bank, IFPRI, GAIN, and various USAID initiatives. He is continuing his contributions to the food systems, nutrition and public health community as an Independent Food Systems and Nutrition Consultant and the Founding Director of the Praisegate Services & Consult. Victor holds a Ph.D. from the Public Health Faculty of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and completed the Advanced Management and Leadership program of the Said Business School, Oxford, and is a Fellow of the Nutrition Society of Nigeria. He is currently a student at the School of Politics, Policy, and Governance, and is passionate about leadership and innovations for sustainable development in Africa. Dr Victor Ajieroh recently completed serving on the Advisory Group of the Welcome Trust funded Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems Initiative that covered South Africa, the United Kingdom and India, and also served on the Steering Committee of the African Academy of Sciences on African Food and Nutrition Priorities. For several years, he served as the supporting representative of an Eminent Member of the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition, supported Nigeria's engagement around the Global Food Systems Summit and currently sits on the board of the World Vegetable Center. With significant experience working with bilateral and multilateral donor programs, the private sector, international research, non-governmental, and government institutions, he has provided leadership for a complex portfolio of investments and endeavors in support of transformative policy, programmatic, research, data, financing and leadership development initiatives in the agriculture, food systems, nutrition, and public health landscape in Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Burkina Faso and the broader West Africa. Dr. Victor Ajieroh builds and facilitates fit-for-purpose multi-stakeholder partnership, leadership and coordination models for high impact and sustainable development priorities through strategic platforms that enable the convergence of leaders in business, politics, and philanthropy. He has influenced food systems, nutrition and public health financing initiatives through trust funds and other innovative financing mechanisms.