Consortium Leadership Team

Anne-Marie Izac was chief officer of the Alliance of fifteen International Agricultural Research Centers from 2006 to 2010 and chief executive officer for the interim Consortium Office from January to October 2010.

Anne-Marie worked as the leader of research programs at IITA and ICRAF and as director of research at ICRAF. She has been Deputy Director General for Science at the Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD). She was responsible for a reform of research programs and a new monitoring and evaluation system.

Anne-Marie was a lead author for the nutrient chapter of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and a coordinating lead author for the global chapter on policy for the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development.
Anne-Marie has been an advisor on sustainable agriculture to the Royal Academy of Sciences in the Netherlands. She serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and on the scientific board of the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative Platform of the agribusiness sector. She is also vice-chair of the Global Environmental Change and Food Systems program. Her publications focus on the interface between economics and ecology in agriculture. This includes the management of natural resources for increased resilience and the analysis of trade-offs between productivity and sustainability in agricultural systems.

Anne-Marie’s PhD from the University of Western Australia is in environmental and natural resource economics and she has an MSc in ecology and an MA in agricultural economics from Washington State University. Her BSc is in applied mathematics. She has held tenured academic positions in the USA and Australia, lecturing and conducting research in economics and natural resources management and policy, with a strong focus on agriculture.