Paul Winters

Paul oversees activities across the Innovation Commission Secretariat and leads engagements with partners. Paul is an agricultural economist whose research focuses on rural poverty and food insecurity, small-scale agriculture, and inclusive and sustainable food systems, among other topics. Paul is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. Before Notre Dame, Paul was the Associate Vice-President of Strategy and Knowledge at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and, prior to that, a Professor of Economics at American University. Paul has also worked at the International Potato Center in Peru, the University of New England in Australia, and the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC. Paul holds a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Paul Winters

Executive Director

Paul oversees activities across the Innovation Commission Secretariat and leads engagements with partners. Paul is an agricultural economist whose research focuses on rural poverty and food insecurity, small-scale agriculture, and inclusive and sustainable food systems, among other topics. Paul is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. Before Notre Dame, Paul was the Associate Vice-President of Strategy and Knowledge at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and, prior to that, a Professor of Economics at American University. Paul has also worked at the International Potato Center in Peru, the University of New England in Australia, and the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC. Paul holds a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.