Mr Luis Jiménez-McInnis joined the International Fund for Agricultural Development in February 2010 as Special Adviser to the President. Prior to this, Luis was First Officer in the Executive Office of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Kimoon. As part of the Strategic Planning Unit,he was tasked with the Secretary-General’s
climate change agenda. Working with the UN since 1999, he has also been involved in peace and security issues in Colombia and Haiti with the UN Department of Political
Affairs. Before his time at the UN Secretariat, Luis served as Policy Analyst in the Office of Development Studies in the United Nations Development Programme and as Research Associate for Latin America Studies at the
Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He holds an A.B. in Political Science and International Relations from Brown University and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University.