Mr. Kostas Stamoulis
Former Assistant-Director General of the Economic and Social Development Department and Senior Adviser to FAO
Mr. Kostas (Konstantinos) G. Stamoulis is currently Senior Advisor in FAO on issues of food security and food systems transformation.
Stamoulis retired from FAO in December 2018 as Assistant Director-General of the Economic and Social Development Department, a position in which he held for 3 years.
In his 30 year career with FAO he served in a number of technical and management positions.
Before he became Assistant Director General Stamoulis was Strategic Programme Leader for the Food Security and Nutrition Strategic Programme of FAO which cut across several disciplines and geographical regions.
Between 2008 and 2015 he was the Director of the Agricultural Development Economics Division of FAO.
From 2007 to 2015 he was the Secretary of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) and played a key role in the reform of the committee.
Before joining FAO in 1989, he was Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign ( USA).
Stamoulis has experience in the analysis and policy support on a wide array of issues: food security, agricultural and rural development, agricultural and food systems transformation, rural-urban linkages and urban food systems and environmental economics. He has been the author of numerous publications ( books, monographs, governing body papers and reports and many articles in peer-reviewed professional journals. For many years he had the overall supervision and guidance for the major FAO flagship publications : The State of Food and Nutrition in the World ( SOFI), the State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) and FAO’s Global Perspectives work.
He holds a degree in Economics from the Economics University of Athens (Greece), a Master’s Degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Georgia (USA) and a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California at Berkeley ( USA).