Douglas is an award-winning information architect, filmmaker, photographer, and writer.

He directed the KNOW YOUR FOOD series for PBS and GROWING ORGANIC for USDA, MOLOTOV ALVA for HBO, and has authored two books, SLOW: Life in a Tuscan Town, and LOCAL: The New Face of Food & Farming in America.

He is also one of Crop Trust’s Food Forever champions and a visiting professor in the Master’s Program at Slow Food’s University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy. New bio: Douglas is an award-winning information architect, filmmaker, photographer, and writer.

He co-founded The Lexicon, directed the KNOW YOUR FOOD series for PBS and GROWING ORGANIC for USDA, MOLOTOV ALVA for HBO, and has authored two books, SLOW: Life in a Tuscan Town, and LOCAL: The New Face of Food & Farming in America.

He is also one of Crop Trust’s Food Forever champions and a visiting professor in the Master’s Program at Slow Food’s University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy.

Dr. Máximo Torero Cullen is the Chief Economist of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). He joined the Organization in January 2019 as Assistant Director-General for the Economic and Social Development Department. Prior to joining FAO, he was the World Bank Group Executive Director for Argentina, Bolivia, Chile Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay since November 2016, and before the Bank Dr. Torero led the Division of the Markets, Trade, and Institutions at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). His major research work lies mostly in analyzing poverty, inequality, the importance of geography and assets (private or public) in explaining poverty, and in policies oriented towards poverty alleviation based on the role played by infrastructure, institutions, and on how technological breakthroughs (or discontinuities) can improve the welfare of households and small farmers. His experience encompasses Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia.

Dr. Torero, a national of Peru, holds a Ph.D. and a Master’s Degree in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of the Pacific, Lima, Peru. He is a professor on leave at the University of the Pacific (Perú) and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Bonn, Germany, and has also published in top journals (QJE, Econometric Theory, AER-Applied Microeconomics, RSTAT, Labor Economics, and many other top journals).

Dr. Torero received the Georg Foster Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2000, won the Award for Outstanding Research on Development given by The Global Development Network, twice, in 2000 and in 2002, and received the Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite Agricole in 2014.

Dr. David Laborde Debucquet joined IFPRI, Washington DC, in 2007. He is a Senior Research Fellow in the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division and the Theme Leader on Macroeconomics and Trade for IFPRI.

His research interests include globalization, international trade, measurement and modeling of protectionism, multilateral and regional trade liberalization as well as environmental issues (climate change, biofuels). He has developed the MAcMapHS6 and the ADEPTA databases on tariffs as well as the TASTE software. He is a contributor to the GTAP database and a GTAP research fellow since 2005. Recently, he has been focusing on costing the roadmap to achieving SDG2 in a globalized context while considering the role of goods, capital, and migration flows.

Beyond his work on databases, he has developed several partial and general equilibrium models applied to trade policy and environmental issues, including the MIRAGE and MIRAGRODEP models and their extensions.

He has participated in and organized training sessions for researchers and policymakers in several developing countries, with a special focus on sub-Saharan Africa.

Prior to joining IFPRI, he was an Economist at the Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales (CEPII), Paris between 2003 and 2007 and lecturer at the University of Pau (France). He received his PhD from the University of Pau in 2008. He has also worked as a consultant for the European Commission, the Economic Commission for West Africa, the World Bank, USAID, and various UN agencies.

Katrin Park is a communications and knowledge management professional with development experience in seven countries, including Afghanistan, Indonesia, and North Macedonia. She’s an expert in developing and executing communications strategies for the UN and NGOs to achieve policy objectives. She’s currently a knowledge management consultant at FAO. Previously, she was head of communications for research institutes in Cairo and Washington. She’s also a freelance writer and her articles have appeared in outlets like Foreign Policy and USA Today. She has a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University.

Chloe Cho is a writer and project manager at The Lexicon. She is a graduate from the University of California, Berkeley with a BS in Genetics & Plant Biology, a BA in Data Science, and a minor in Food Systems. During her time at Berkeley, she found a passion for agroecology and the intricacies of the ecological and social networks in agriculture and agri-food systems. Her research focuses on ecological pest management and the wealth of knowledge in traditional and indigenous farming systems as alternatives to pesticides. She is especially interested in the impacts of urbanization on insect communities and localized urban agri-food systems. Additionally, Chloe is a contributing writer to UnScilenced, a collective of scientists who translate scientific literature into accessible articles for policymakers and the public. She believes that science communication should be inclusive, not exclusive and that people deserve to be informed. She is also a Science Fellow at Pesticide Action Network North America.

Pier Giorgio is The Lexicon’s Head of Digital. Based near Bristol, England, his projects include short films for PBS, USDA, Warner Brothers, and Napster, as well as a feature-length documentary for HBO. He also produces short films for Sustainable Food Trust and GrowEatGather, which showcases British farmers and their role in producing sustainable food.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/piergiorgioprovenzano/

Alberto is an associate director at The Lexicon, where he leads impact campaigns (Reawakened, A Greener Blue) and multi-stakeholder projects in collaboration with both private and public organizations. His work leverages evidence-based storytelling, collaborative approaches and story-based design.

In Italy, in a cozy house in a picturesque isometric town lives Aurielaki. Scenographer by training and illustrator by profession for 25 years. Freelance contributor to the main microstock platforms, which was one of the precursors and a reference point for the isometric style, which is known, appreciated, and used by increasingly numerous international audiences. In his virtual forge every day Aurielaki, tirelessly, gives life to new worlds.

To contact Aurielaki: image.illustration@gmail.com

Amine is a game programmer for over 13 years, working on a wide range of platforms including consoles and mobile. With a particular interest in the intersection between Art and Technology, Amine likes making content creation tools used by both creative and technical disciplines. He likes long-distance running and his best times are 16m39s over 5K and 1h22m35s over 21K.

Pedro Guerra is the designer of Pete War Studio. He design and develop new media content, multidisciplinary approach to digital content. He thinks in design with a smart interaction and visual feel, innovative interface, whether it is for web or mobile.

Working for 14 years in the creative industries, worked for several companies such as Mega.nz and Triworks.

To contact Pedro Guerra: bwcolors@hotmail.com