Hans Muzoora

Values-driven leader with 25 years of experience providing solutions to the challenges faced by agrifood systems, diets, and nutrition. Passionate about the process of transformative change and how to get there. Organizational leader, strategist, policy advisor, communicator, and thinker. Committed to improving the quality and processes of decision-making to transform unhealthy, unsustainable, unequal food systems into solutions for people and planet. Through engaging, consulting, and collaborating with high-level decision-makers in government, international institutions, academia, and civil society, I provide insights on how to design and deliver innovative food policy, practical strategies, and people-centered programming to enable real and lasting systems change. Adept at managing complex multi-stakeholder project delivery, I work with teams to translate big picture vision and systems thinking into actionable and sustainable solutions. In driving success, I believe in building common ground and consensus across divergent perspectives and priorities. I actively listen to others, learning and adapting facilitate conversations, collaboration, and inclusion and communicate complex information with clarity to ensure the understanding of all. Passionate about helping disadvantaged and vulnerable communities by generating innovative solutions to resolve areas of weakness and committed to improving the livelihoods and climate resilience of smallholder farmers in Africa through investing and scaling innovative agribusinesses. My goal is to be able to help disadvantaged and vulnerable people at the "bottom of the pyramid" through inclusive financing mechanisms using market-based approaches. Mr. Muzoora is a member of numerous professional associations, including being a board Member of Root capital. A recognized expert in agricultural commodity-based trade and rural livelihoods, Muzoora has authored or co-authored articles such as Coffee and Cotton Market Development and Trade Promotion in Eastern and Southern Africa. His Master's thesis, Improving the Livelihoods of Rural Small-Scale Farmers through Innovative, Participatory and Demand Led Extension and Advisory Services has attracted a lot of interest worldwide and has been published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing and is available in leading bookshops globally. Lastly, Hans is a Graduate of the Inclusive Markets Institute, of Canada. He speaks English, Swahili, and Spanish