Grazia Pacillo

Senior economist and evaluator with more than 15 years of experience in research on food and agricultural systems resilience, sustainability, and transformation considering interconnected global and regional challenges, in primis, the climate security crisis. She co-leads the CGIAR FOCUS Climate Security team. Her main research interest lies in evaluating the role of climate as a “threat multiplier”, exacerbating existing risks and insecurities, such as food and nutrition insecurity, poverty, forced migration, gender, and other structural inequalities, which in turn can affect the prospect for peace and stability across the world. She had led and co-authored multiple research outputs addressing the link between climate and peace and security. She currently leads multiple projects that combine conventional and unconventional mixed-method approaches to qualify and quantify the climate security nexus in Africa, Latin America, and South-East Asia. She also leads a research area aiming to change the way we measure peace and security in a climate crisis. Before this appointment, she managed the Impact Assessment and M&E team in the International Center For Tropical Agriculture in Asia and worked with several humanitarian, development, and research actors, such as IFAD, DFID, ODI, and Save the Children. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Economics and a Master of Science degree in Development Economics from the University of Sussex (UK), a Masters’s degree in Economics and Politics of European Integration (summa cum laude), and a Bachelor of Science degree in International and Diplomatic Science (summa cum laude) from the University of Bologna (Italy).