Dr Sophia Baumert

Dr. Sophia Baumert is a professional with profound experience in agricultural sustainability, climate change, agri-food systems, land-use systems and ecosystem services. Since 2021, she is working with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), now based in Nairobi, managing the project “Sustainable Agricultural Systems and Policies” AgSys, in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development. Making finance work for agri-food system transformation is one priority area of the project. Prior to AgSys, she worked as climate & agriculture adviser at GIZ HQ in Bonn, advising the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) on the food- systems transformation agenda.a