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Dr Patrick Caron

Senior Researcher, CIRAD

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With education in veterinary sciences (doctorate), nutrition (MSc), public health (MSc) and… (more)

With education in veterinary sciences (doctorate), nutrition (MSc), public health (MSc) and development geography (PhD), Patrick Caron is specialist of food systems, with focus on controversy analysis and multi-scale governance.

He is Director of the Montpellier Advanced Knowledge Institute on Transitions (https://makit.edu.umontpellier.fr/en/home/), Chair of Agropolis International (https://www.agropolis.fr/Who-we-are), Vice-Chair of the CGIAR System Board (https://www.cgiar.org/).

He joined CIRAD (https://www.cirad.fr/) in 1988 and has been Director for research and strategy (2010-2016). He was Chair of the High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) of the UN Committee on world Food Security (2015-2019), Vice President of the University of Montpellier (2019-2023) and member of the Science Group of the 2021 UN Food System Summit.

He is actively engaged in the Montpellier Process, a collective and community-owned process convened and curated by an alliance of partners whose aim is to demonstrate more effective, more iterative, and better coordinated Science-to-Policy Interfaces (SPIs) across scales (global, national and local), across sectors (environment, health, people) and across knowledge systems.