Professor Stefan Ouma, University of Bayreuth, Germany

Professor Stefan Ouma is Chair of Economic Geography at the Department of Geography at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. He is a world-leading scholar on the political economy and ecology of global agri-food supply chains, and the financialization of land and agriculture. His work has involved research in West and East Africa, New Zealand and Germany. Professor Ouma has an extensive list of publications, including ‘Farming as Financial Asset: Global Finance and the Making of Institutional Landscapes’ (Agenda Publishing, Columbia University Press, 2020) and ‘Assembling Export Markets: The Making and Unmaking of Food Connections in West Africa’ (Wiley, 2015) and operates the influential Institutional Landscapes website, which acts as a portal for research on agricultural financialisation and land acquisition.

Professor Anne Marie Thow, University of Sydney, Australia

Professor Anne Marie Thow is in the Menzies Centre for Health Policy at the University of Sydney. Her research uses theories of public policy making to explore facilitators and barriers to best practice public health nutrition policy, with a particular focus on the interface between economic policy and nutrition. Anne Marie currently collaborates on research in Asia, Africa and the Pacific, designed to strengthen nutrition policy making. Anne Marie regularly consults with national governments and international agencies regarding nutrition policy, and was appointed to ongoing membership of the Nutrition Guidance Advisory Group, Policy Subgroup of the World Health Organization in 2018. Her research and analyses appears in The Lancet, Nutrition Reviews, Bulletin of the World Health Organanization, and Health Policy among others