David Laborde is the director of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Agribusiness Division. He has led the division since February 2023. In this role, he oversees a number of flagship publications, such as the State of Food Security and Nutrition (SOFI) or the State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) and leads the division’s work on policy monitoring, policy reform and realigning incentives to support agri-food system transformation. He is also responsible for two priority areas for the institution: resilience and the bioeconomy. Before joining FAO, David Laborde worked for 16 years at the International Food Policy Research Institute of the CGIAR in Washington D.C. as a member of the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division. He directed the research theme on macroeconomics and trade and was also co-director of the Ceres2030 project. David Laborde has developed numerous partial equilibrium models, in particular the MIRAGE and MIRAGRODEP models, and databases such as MAcMapHS6 on tariffs and the TASTE software. He has contributed to the GAP database and has been a GTAP researcher since 2005. For his contributions, he received the Alan Powell Award in 2018. Throughout his career, David Laborde has published extensively, with over 150 papers, and has edited several books and high-level policy reports.
