Philip is a project management practitioner in international development with almost two decades of practical experience in project design and implementation with a particular focus on climate change adaptation and resilience, agriculture and food systems sustainability development, agricultural value chains and markets systems development, agricultural technology/innovation dissemination and adoption, rural livelihood, youth employment/entrepreneurship, and social enterprise development. He helped build private sector firms through research, data analytics for an informed decision, systems building, and educating/sensitizing sessions, notably agro-processing companies, seeds companies, and agro-dealers in Ghana, Senegal, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Rwanda. I have also been involved in policy framework design and negotiation, farmer literacy, and pedagogy design.  I am also a published author in top-tier journals covering global food security, sustainable food systems, climate and development, rural sustainable development, and digital agriculture technologies. Philip have strong leadership and interpersonal skills, building solid relationships with international donors with a successful history of securing and managing grant portfolios to over CAD$25M. Philip holds a Geography and International Development Studies doctorate from the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He also leads a team of experts at Global Agri-Business Solutions INC, a consulting firm providing unparalleled place-based advisory services in agriculture and agribusiness. His career objective is to play an active role in the new global development agenda, leading to an increase in global food security, sustainable food systems, climate change adaptation, rural livelihood improvement, poverty reduction, private sector development, and promoting women and youth economic empowerment.