James Henderson

James Henderson is Agriculture Program Lead at the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD). In Rome he works with FAO, IFAD, WFP, and member state missions to build political support for the data and statistics underpinning food security policy. He co-convenes the Rome Food Systems Collaborative and is an observer to the Committee on World Food Security. Through the 50x2030 Initiative he works directly with ministries of agriculture and national statistics offices across Africa to strengthen the data systems behind food security decisions. He previously worked with the Stockholm Environment Institute's Trase initiative and Geneva's International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Paraguay. He holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Freiburg (Germany). His doctoral research at the University of Bonn's Center for Development Research (ZEF) in Germany examines deforestation-free verification in South American soybean supply chains.