ASTRID AGOSTINI is a Senior Officer in the Sustainable Agriculture Programme at FAO. As the Team Leader of FAO’s Climate Finance Team in 2017-18, she led the organization’s engagement with the Green Climate Fund (GCF). She was a co-author of FAO’s State of Food and Agriculture Report 2016 “Climate change, agriculture and food security” and coordinated FAO’s work on climate-smart agriculture. Previously she was a Senior Adviser in FAO’s Investment Centre, leading FAO’s work on capacity development for investment through tools and country support. Astrid is a Natural Resource Economist and has assisted countries on investment projects in Africa, Latin America and Asia. From 2006-2009, in the years of the biofuels boom and food price hike, she promoted evidence based international dialogue and developed guidance on the sustainable development of bioenergy. Astrid holds an M.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford and an M.Sc. in Environmental and Resource Economics from University College London.