Andrew is CoFSA’s Founder and Team Lead. Andrew is the UNDP Global Head of Food and Agricultural Commodity Systems practice. With degrees from Oxford University and the Fletcher School of International Relations, he is at the cutting edge of thinking on transforming food and agricultural commodity systems and nature based solutions. 

He has over 25 years’ expertise in changing systems through collaborative action and fostering transformative stakeholder partnerships and cooperation in food and commodity systems, to address climate, conservation and poverty. 

He envisioned CoFSA during his sabbatical year in 2020. This time brought opportunities both to reflect on 20 years of progress in the development sector, and to meet a number of inspiring individuals and advocates of inner change. He became determined to create a space where the international development community could cultivate and integrate inner change into daily work and ultimately, catalyze elusive system transformation with food systems being the entry point.