Mr. Robert Bertram
Rob Bertram is Chief Scientist in USAID’s Bureau for Resilience and Food Security, where he leads USAID’s evidence-based efforts to advance agricultural and food systems research supporting the U.S. Government’s global food security initiative, Feed the Future. Feed the Future focuses on reduction of poverty and malnutrition through inclusive agriculture-led growth and increased access to affordable, quality diets. He advances these outcomes by working across USAID’s food security research portfolio, spanning the U.S. University-led Feed the Future Innovation Labs, the CGIAR and other International Agricultural Research Centers, and public-private partnerships in agricultural biotechnology, all of which collaborate with and build capacity of national research organizations across Africa, Asia and Latin America. He is active in multilateral science contexts, where he leads USAID participation in the CGIAR and the Global Crop Diversity Trust, chairs the FAO Global Action on Fall Armyworm Technical Committee, and serves as a Senior Official in the Executive Committee of Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) movement.Rob Bertram is Chief Scientist in USAID’s Bureau for Resilience and Food Security, where he leads USAID’s evidence-based efforts to advance agricultural and food systems research supporting the U.S. Government’s global food security initiative, Feed the Future. Feed the Future focuses on reduction of poverty and malnutrition through inclusive agriculture-led growth and increased access to affordable, quality diets. He advances these outcomes by working across USAID’s food security research portfolio, spanning the U.S. University-led Feed the Future Innovation Labs, the CGIAR and other International Agricultural Research Centers, and public-private partnerships in agricultural biotechnology, all of which collaborate with and build capacity of national research organizations across Africa, Asia and Latin America. He is active in multilateral science contexts, where he leads USAID participation in the CGIAR and the Global Crop Diversity Trust, chairs the FAO Global Action on Fall Armyworm Technical Committee, and serves as a Senior Official in the Executive Committee of Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) movement.