Siobhan Kelly

Bio

Siobhan Kelly is an Agribusiness Economist with the Food Systems and Food Safety Division at FAO.  She currently leads FAO’s work on policymaking for agrifood systems transformation; including on themes related to multistakeholder and private sector engagement in policy agenda setting and implementation. She also has expertise in agrifood value chain development, including the role of agrifood SMEs in rural transformation. Siobhan began her career working with multinational companies in Spain, the U.K and Ireland before transitioning to working with NGOs on enterprise development in Central America, before joining the FAO  2005.    She has a Post-Grad Professional Diploma in Food Sector Strategy from University College Dublin, an MA in International Relations from Dublin City University, and a BA (Hons) in International Business from the University of Northumbria in the U.K.